Quotes about Eternity
Everybody wants to enjoy heaven after they die, but they don't want to be heavenly-minded while they live.
— DL Moody
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
— Samuel Rutherford
Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.
— John Piper
Heaven is His choice for you. But He won't force you to go there if you don't want to.
— Bo Sanchez
Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.
— Paul Washer
As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
— Richard Baxter
Life is real, and death is the illusion.
— Mary Baker Eddy
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
— St. Augustine
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
— St. Augustine
To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
— Samuel Johnson
Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.
— Timothy Keller