Quotes about Eternity
What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.
— Teresa of Avila
Clearly we must not be attached to anything, no matter how innocent, because it will slip from our grasp when least expected; nothing but the eternal can content us.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
My only consolation lies in not having any here below.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We'll have a long time to be happy in heaven.
— AW Tozer
Jesus said, "I am the way to heaven." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.
— Rick Warren
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
— JRR Tolkien
Everything passes, only truth remains.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
— Bill Hybels
Hell itself is truth known too late
— JC Ryle
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
— St. Augustine