Quotes About Eternity

To touch time. That, I suppose, is what life for me has been about since then.

How can you kill a man who'd already been dead for years?

Ich schließe meine Augen. Was da drinnen los ist. Was da zappelt, was da wie ein blinder Fisch durch den Schmerz schwimmt, für immer und ewig. Was da lebt, was bleibt. Was sich erneuert, die Liebe und den Schmerz lebendig hält. Die Liebe ist das Flussbett, das sich mit Schmerz füllt. Es füllt sich jeden Tag aufs Neue mit Tränen.

The creature gazes into openness with all its eyes.… Free from death. We alone see that: the free creature has its progress always behind it, and God before it, and when it moves, it moves in eternity, as streams do. She

It was not as if they lived, exactly, but maybe they were not lost forever to the great dark. That they endured in the weather and the seasons.

So if you find yourself hoping against God, and the thought of everyone being saved isn't good news to you, but bad news to you; if grace burns you like fire – you need to ask yourself why.

We look back in time. "The Bible...looks forward from the beginning.

No matter what data is used, we live in a universe where six days from one standpoint is several billion years from another standpoint. And indeed, all of time is an instant from the standpoint of light, and "God is light.

We must decide whether to act as if the universe is a cosmic car-crash, in which our actions have no significance beyond their observable effects, or an ordered and purposeful whole, in which our actions continue to echo and reverberate down all eternity.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ëThe LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.í This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

The LORD will reign forever and ever!”

If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.

For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”

Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”

For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”

And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.