Quotes about Eternity

each one of us will face a moment when eternity whispers into our hearts, This is your time.

The truth that sets us free is this: Jesus is the one and only way to everlasting life.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

We will never be completely satisfied by our achievements, skills, wealth, fame, pleasures, or possessions. Why? Because the human heart was created to need more than what is available to us in the natural realm. Only the eternal, supernatural God can fill our longings.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, "How many good things have you done in your life?" Rather he will ask, "How much love did you put into what you did?"

Salvation, then, is not "going to heaven" but "being raised to life in God's new heaven and new earth.

Dust we are, and to dust we shall return. But God can do new things with dust.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

since humans are made for the life that comes from God and God alone, to worship that which is not God is to fall in love with death. Here

It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: "life after 'life after death.

Being saved' doesn't just mean, as it does for many today, 'going to heaven when they die'. It means 'knowing God's rescuing power, the power revealed in Jesus, which anticipates, in the present, God's final great act of deliverance'.