Quotes About Eternity

It is faith—without good works and prior to good works—that takes us to heaven. We come to God through faith alone.

Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.

Almighty God, who through the death of Your Son has destroyed sin and death, and by His resurrection has restored innocence and everlasting life, that we may be delivered from the dominion of the devil, and our mortal bodies raised up from the dead: grant that I may confidently and wholeheartedly believe this, and, finally, with Your saints, share in the joyful resurrection of the just; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. Amen.

VIII. Beyond all this is the highest stage of faith, when; God punishes the conscience not only with temporal sufferings, but with death, hell, and sin, and refuses grace and mercy, as though it were His will to condemn and to be angry eternally. This few men experience, but David cries out in Psalm vi, "O Lord, rebuke me not in Thine anger." To believe at such times that God, in His mercy, is pleased with us, is the highest work that can be done by and in the creature;

Therefore Augustine was right when he said: "The external works of the Godhead are indivisible.

Ask God to work faith in you; otherwise you will remain eternally without faith, no matter what you try to do or fabricate.

God will not permit all men to enter heaven; those who are his own he will receive with all readiness.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

It's a time of great paradox: we want to live forever but seem intent on executing the earth.

Everything that exists perishes, everything that has been created by those who perish will be destroyed. One inevitably leads to the other, one can never return to the primordial.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

There is no greater, no more important art upon earth than the art of dying a good death. Upon this thy whole eternity depends; an eternity of surpassing felicity or of unutterable torment.

Repent of thy sins, make a sincere confession, amend thy ways, and begin to think seriously about thy eternal salvation.

Imelda believed in God because she felt that there had to be something else, something after all this, and also because anyone who was still being worshipped and adored after all that time had to have something going for them.

Non Omnis Moriar. I shall not altogether die. Horace (65 BC-8 BC)

Death is the ending of all true stories.

There are some who come willingly," I said, as if I had not heard him, "not out of love, but out of sickness and sadness and a lack of understanding. He wanted none of them. And so he waited without waiting, and dreamed of what he could not imagine, and performed his terrible work and lived only in the moments out of which eternity is spun, knowing it was hopeless.

In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death.

I don't know anyone else who could dream a world where nothing ends.

A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift. ....The Lord has declared that those who serve him and keep his commandments are called his servants. After they have been tested and tried and are found faithful and true in all things, they are called no longer servants, but friends. His friends are the ones he will take into his kingdom and with whom he will associate in an eternal inheritance.

Someone has wisely stated that hate is not the opposite of love. Apathy is. We will not have time for apathy in life's journey if we speak and think positively. Seek, search, and work for worthy eternal qualities and friends.

Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. 2) But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will bear!