Quotes about Eternity

We have forever inside us, and it creates a natural disappointment with the brokenness of the here and now.

Jesus faced separation from his Father in the here and now so that we would know the Father's acceptance now and for all eternity.

The reality of eternity infuses the here and now with seriousness and hope. The way you live is important because there is an eternity to follow. The choices you make are important because there is a forever. The things you believe are important because the world is moving toward eternity. The things you surrender your heart to are important because there is an eternal tomorrow.

It is tempting to forget that there is an eternity or to think that it doesn't make any difference in the present. Paul says just the opposite to the Corinthians; that if you only have Christ in this life, you are a person to be pitied. Eternity is the only thing that can give you a reason to continue.

You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.

It is sad how many people constantly live in the schizophrenic craziness of eternity amnesia. We were created to live in a forever relationship with a forever God forever. We were designed to live based on a long view of life. We were made to live with one eye on now and one eye on eternity. You and I simply cannot live as we were put together to live without forever.

Here's the real-life, street-level issue: 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 be.

We all need to be reminded again and again of what God has declared are the most important things in life.

You have only two choices: an "on earth" way of thinking that is all about this right here, right now physical moment, or an "above" way of thinking that looks at life from the vantage point of the grand redemptive story and, more specifically, from the perspective of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We were made to be more connected to what is above us than to what is below us. To

He reminds us not to live for the treasures of the moment:

If eternity is the plan, then it makes no sense to shrink your living down to the needs and wants of this little moment.