Quotes about Eternity

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Hold your possessions so loosely that when they are lost in the sacrifices of love, your confidence in a supreme Treasure in heaven will fill you with joy.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. Worship, therefore, is the fuel and the goal of missions.8

The one thing God is doing in all of redemptive history is to show forth his mercy in such a way that the greatest number of people will throughout eternity delight in him with all their heart, strength, and mind.

There is no point in romanticizing other religions that reject the deity and saving work of Christ. They do not know God. And those who follow them tragically waste their lives.

And because his love for you never had a beginning, it can have no end.

The key to endurance in the cause of self-sacrificing love is not heroic willpower, but deep, unshakable confidence that the joy we have tasted in fellowship with Christ will not disappoint us in death.