Quotes about Eternity

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.

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?

This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.

Lord. I must recognize that God, in his awesome glory, is the only being in the universe who exists in timelessness. He has created me to live in and for a certain time and place. I must do all he has called me to do within the limits of the time he has given me.

When you have one eye on eternity, this present physical world looks entirely different.

This means that if you obey him for a thousand years, you will have no more of his favor than when you first believed.

This is grace: the King died to dethrone kings so that he would be their King forever and ever and ever.

God has given you the gift of his Son, not to make your little kingdom successful, but to welcome you to a much better kingdom. Now what in the world does that mean? Paul David Tripp