Quotes about Imminence

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

To Mr. Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the oncoming oar, not discerning the forms, but expecting the summons.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

I drank to the imminent of His Coming, he repeated, with a sincere attempt to feel that the coming was imminent; but the eyebrow continued to haunt him, and the Coming, as far as he was concerned, was horribly remote.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

An overemphasis upon imminence in preaching has banished transcendence and tended to a theology of God being technically present as an observer but effectively absent as a participant. When