Quotes About Eternity

Once He delivered up His Spirit in death; Then He will be alive forevermore. Once He was laid in a tomb; Then He will sit on a throne.

We think we are in the land of the living going to the land of the dying. But really we are in the land of the dying, going to the land of the living.

Biblical heroes were regular people who had to learn the same things you and I have to learn–to drive out fear by increasing their knowledge of God, to shift their focus from their present fear to the eternal God, to replace what they didn't know about the future with what they did know about Him.

The Bible assures us that a morning will dawn bright and glorious someday. All the sorrow and sadness and difficulty we've known in the darkened skies of life will vanish. The Lord will return for us at the daybreak of eternity, and there will be no more weeping, no more pain or suffering, no more broken hearts. There will be no more valleys plunging away from the peaks. He will dry every tear, and there will be joy in that great morning.

If you have a steel ball, solid steel, the size of this earth, 25,000 miles in circumference, and every one million years a little sparrow would be released to land on that ball to sharpen his beak and fly away only to come back another million years later and begin again, by the time he would have worn that ball down to the size of a BB, eternity would have just begun.

The White Throne Judgment will be nothing like our modern court cases. At the White Throne, there will be a Judge but no jury, a prosecution but no defense, a sentence but no appeal.

the devil may win the battle—but Christ has already won the war.

We move in time, but God operates in eternity. He sees the end from the beginning. He cannot be taken by surprise, for our past, present, and future are before Him and in His grip all at once. An emergency to you or me is an opportunity in the great mosaic

ready for the Rapture, there's no such thing as getting ready—there's only living ready. When you hear Jesus' shout, the archangel's voice, and God's trumpet (1 Thessalonians 4:16), you'll know that you're an eyeblink away from seeing your Savior's face. Make sure you're all about His business until He comes.

It shouldn't be too surprising that the person who is actually present as we cross the threshold of life and take our first breath once again appears at the threshold as we take our last breath.

You will always be my always.

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

You will always be my always, he assured me.

I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.

Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.

It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

We are the time. We are the breathing. We are the air.

I love the vagueness of words that involve time.

once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in

We go for what feels like hours and also feels like no time at all.

Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all eveidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just take a nice silly walk in Central Park with. Somebody who wouldn't judge another for the prepositions they dangle, or their run-on sentences, who in turn wouldn't be judged for the snobbery of their language etymology inclinations.

We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

Why must we die over and over again?