Quotes about Eternity

God loved us before he made us and his love has never diminished and never shall.

ETERNITY is a long time. FIRE is a terrible thing. The thought of eternal punishment, with fire, not only causes man to fear death, it often causes him to lose his reason. It destroys interest in life and makes happiness impossible.

Today is unique! It has never occurred before, and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.[9]

Mark it down in permanent ink: God is always at work.

I don't know why people have to die, Son. I don't think death was what God wanted. But it sure was part of somebody's plan. I believe God is big enough and powerful enough to use it. There's more going on here than we can see.

We think we'll have questions for God when we get to heaven, but when we actually see him, we'll understand it's not about getting our questions answered because the questions won't be important. We'll finally be with God. So I would just look at her. And if she let me, I would hug her. For a long time."

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

Everything God does and everything God calls us to only make sense from the perspective of eternity. If there is no end to the story, believers are a bunch of fools who need to be pitied. There is no reason for what we have tried to do. But there is a final chapter! God has opened it up so that we could look in and then look back to our lives with understanding and hope.

The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.' Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell.