Quotes about Eternity

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Time and tides wait for none

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

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.

Heaven, so to speak, has received time and history into itself, no less than time has received unchangeableness and eternity into itself.

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).

Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.

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.

The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.