Quotes about Eternity

VIII. Beyond all this is the highest stage of faith, when; God punishes the conscience not only with temporal sufferings, but with death, hell, and sin, and refuses grace and mercy, as though it were His will to condemn and to be angry eternally. This few men experience, but David cries out in Psalm vi, "O Lord, rebuke me not in Thine anger." To believe at such times that God, in His mercy, is pleased with us, is the highest work that can be done by and in the creature;

It is indeed pitiful that a monk who does nothing else night and day except chastise his body achieves nothing by this diligence than to be cast into the flames of hell.

Ask God to work faith in you; otherwise you will remain eternally without faith, no matter what you try to do or fabricate.

God will not permit all men to enter heaven; those who are his own he will receive with all readiness.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from Gods love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrownot even the powers of hell can separate us from Gods love.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't 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?

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end