Quotes about Eternity
The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
— CS Lewis
The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
— Geerhardus Vos
What is envisaged is a point or stretch lying at the end of history; it forms part of what are called "days"; that thereafter there shall be no more days, but something of a different nature is not implied.
— Geerhardus Vos
Heaven, so to speak, has received time and history into itself, no less than time has received unchangeableness and eternity into itself.
— Geerhardus Vos
The resurrection constitutes, as it were, the womb of the new aeon, out of which believers issue as, in a new, altogether unprecedented, sense, sons of God: "They are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection," therefore they neither marry, nor are given in marriage (Lk. xx. 35-36).
— Geerhardus Vos
Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.
— Geerhardus Vos
He who is united to Christ and lives within the circle of his love, to him the eternal retention of the supreme eschatological life is absolutely secure.
— Geerhardus Vos
The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.
— Geerhardus Vos
O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.
— George Eliot
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
— George Eliot
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude...
— George Eliot
Are you afraid?" asked Alma. "No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.
— Isabel Allende