Quotes about Eternity
If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.
— St. Augustine
Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.
— Gordon Hinckley
The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.
— John Ortberg
Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
— Billy Graham
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
— Johannes Tauler
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
— Martin Luther
The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.
— Billy Graham
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
— Seneca
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
— Seneca
promise never to leave us or forsake us. Since we are always in your presence, help us always to keep our eyes fixed upon you that we might follow your lead in the never-ending dance of your life as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
— Shane Claiborne
May the Lord bless us and keep us from all harm, and may God lead us to eternal life. Amen.
— Shane Claiborne
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
— Philip James Bailey