Quotes About Eternity

How can he have fears for his future who knows that he is related to God, and that God is the same yesterday, and today, and forever?

Go blind now, today: eternity also is full of eyes - in them drowns what helped images down the way they came, in them fades what took you out of language, lifted you out with a gesture which you allowed to happen like the dance of the words made of autumn and silk and nothingness.

Zwischen Immer und Nie.

Yes, me, I prefer the hourglass so you can smash it when I tell you of eternity's lie —Paul Celan, "[Blinded by giant leaps]," Romanian Poems (Green Integer, 2003)

Nachts, wenn das Pendel der Liebe schwingt zwischen Immer und Nie, stößt dein Wort zu den Monden des Herzens und dein gewitterhaft blaues Aug reicht der Erde den Himmel. Aus fernem, aus traumgeschwärztem Hain weht uns an das Verhauchte, und das Versäumte geht um, groß wie die Schemen der Zukunft. Was sich nun senkt und hebt, gilt dem zuinnerst Vergrabnen: blind wie der Blick, den wir tauschen, küßt es die Zeit auf den Mund.

We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.

Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.

We weren't created to find our satisfaction in the little, earthbound kingdom treasures of the here and now. We were created to seek a better treasure, and in so doing to be eternally grateful and satisfied.

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

We were simply made for glory, but not just the shadow glories of the created world. We were made for the one glory that is transcendent—the glory of God. When you grasp this, your life begins to make a difference.

Suffering confronts us with the fact that life is not about us but about God. It is not about our glory but his.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS12

Si Dios ya te ha otorgado un lugar en la eternidad, entonces también te ha otorgado toda la gracia que necesitas para el camino, de lo contrario nunca llegarías.

God will not rest from his redemptive work until he has once and for all presided over the funeral of sin and death.

This side of eternity in this broken world, cursing is the default language of the kingdom of self, but mourning is the default language of the kingdom of God. Which language will you speak today?

You can lose it all, but nothing can take life from you, because what defines life is simply not for the taking.

Pastor, your eternal future carries with it the sure promise that you will have all the grace you need to do what you've been called to do between the time you came to Christ and the time you will go home to be with him forever.

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

All the things that disappoint you now are to remind you that this is not all there is

if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."5

You are eternally loved by God; you are eternally his son or daughter; what he wants for you is always right and best; and what he has planned for you is immeasurably better than anything you could have dreamed for yourself.

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.

At the end of the day, what do you long for: for God's grace to do its work or for more of the stuff that this physical created world has to offer?