Quotes About Eternity

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we'll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty which is forever.

According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity.

Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into

Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

Even the greatest of miracles do not resolve the problems of this earth: all people who find physical healing eventually die. We need more than miracle. We need a new heaven and a new earth, and until we have those, unfairness will not disappear.

I can never figure out how to have a friendly conversation with someone when my main point is that they are going to Hell.

metáfora terrenal tomada del mundo de los negocios. El Espíritu nos recuerda que estas desilusiones son temporales; que son el preludio de una vida eterna con Dios, quien estimó necesario restaurar el nexo espiritual

Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life," said Roemer after the filming.

A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

C. S. Lewis said, "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him. JÜRGEN MOLTMANN

Unlike the scary movies and sermons from my youth, not one of them focuses on personal salvation as a way of escaping hell in the afterlife. Rather, they present how the good news about eternity should transform this life. The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

When God looks upon my life graph, he sees not jagged swerves toward good and bad but rather a steady line of good: the goodness of God's Son captured in a moment of time and applied for all eternity.

In the Christian scheme of things, this world and the time spent here are not all there is. Earth is a proving ground, a dot in eternity — albeit an important dot, for Jesus said our destiny depends on our obedience here.

We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

What am I to do, what can any woman do, when her husband is such a fool as to desire a woman for a moment, rather than the woman he is pledged to for eternity?

En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.