Quotes About Eternity

Since God by His very nature (love) cannot force anyone to love Him, it would be highly improper to think of a heaven where people were forced to be there.

regardless of what the real truth is concerning religion and morality, our lives are greatly affected by it today and perhaps even in eternity.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

Poets talk about "spots of time," but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

The soul is a circle

It was a version of nothing so close to something it accidentally became everything.

So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without actually writing about them. I

I will live forever, or at least until I'm forty-five.

Literary posterity may

Those born once will die twice and those born twice will die once

God is not someone "who has lots of time": He is outside the domain of time altogether. That is what Isaiah means when he says, "It is He who inhabits eternity."5

Believe in me and die forever.

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

this is the upside of already being eternally damned

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.

If you ask me, people in hell just scream to hear their own voice and to pass time.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator)

The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

Imagine there is no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.

Somewhere in heaven, you're on a live video Web site for God to surf.

And if Christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would he be in heaven?