Quotes about Eternity

This promise of resurrection is our hope. It is that on which we stake our life. It is what enables us, as Christians, to face death with courage and joy.

Our identification with Christ is a permanent thing; our communion with Christ is as constant as the state of grace in our souls. You and I are the Church; that is our

So we must continue to ransom the time, to restore all things in Christ.

They knew that their story wasn't over when their life was over—that their bodies, somehow, someway, were destined to be a part of that story, and so it mattered where and how those bodies were buried. When the day came to go to the "city" God had "prepared for them," they wanted to walk into that city together, as a family.

Why has God done the things that he has done in history? One word: Love.

I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.

Let us, however, remember this truth: No one has made much progress in the school of Christ who doesn't look forward joyfully both to his death and the day of his final resurrection.

No matter what evils they perpetrate, the enemies of Christ shall not prevail, because Christ sits at God's right hand, not for a time but in eternity.

The true structure of the church is the Kingdom of God, and this is neither frail nor like a tent in any way.

They who take it amiss that the world was not sooner created, may as well expostulate with God for not having made innumerable worlds.

God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely.

Let us know, therefore, that when we have departed from Christ, nothing remains for us but death.