Quotes About Eternity

A Shrunken Gospel We make the gospel too small by thinking it only "gets us saved," that it is a sort of fire insurance, without understanding that it has implications for all of life.

Jesus was "the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth." His

the best use of one's life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Life's value is not its duration but its donation—not how long we live but how fully and how well.1

Procrastination, the thief of time, is one of the devil's most potent weapons for defrauding us of eternal heritage. The

Life is like sea-water; it never gets quite sweet until it is drawn up into heaven.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek they all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, lead, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

His spirit was never to waste a single moment, for once it was gone, it was gone forever.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

The problem is this. We worship the new instead of the eternal. And when we worship the new, we are always changing our allegiances, because there will always be something newer. Look

There is the striking chapter on "The Five Deaths of the Faith" near the end of The Everlasting Man, arguably Chesterton's masterpiece, in which he declares that "Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

Forever will be you and me.

Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.

It didn't seem like a year. It had gone by like a lifetime when you look back and think of a time so far away that you can't clearly remember what happened yet a time that has gone so quickly it seems only a minute ago it started.

How does a bird feel when it dies? A fish, a bug...the infinite worm? I think it weeps.

Death is sleep without knowledge of the pleasure of life.

He could want it to be a dream forever and that wouldn't change things.

No matter how far you are separated from other people if you have an idea of time why then you are in the same world with them you are part of them but if you lose time the others go on ahead of you and you are left alone hanging in air lost to everything forever.

Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.