Quotes about Eternity

Come now, solemnest feast on the road to eternal freedom, Death, and destroy those fetters that bow, those walls that imprison this our transient life, these souls that linger in darkness, so that at last we see what is here withheld from our vision. Long did we seek you, freedom, in discipline, action and suffering. Now that we die, in the face of God himself we behold you.

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

And so the unseen Lord of the eternal kingdom and of the church sends out ambassadors into this world, giving them a mission that is greater than that of any other, just as heaven is greater than earth, and eternity is greater than time. And the authority that this Lord gives these ambassadors is that much greater than all the authorities in this world.

And however crazy, or Christian, or unchristian things may be outside, this world, this beautiful world is quite indestructible.

God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it.

One doesn't cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does not attribute eternity to earthly things. One leaves to death the limited right that it still has. But one expects the new human being and the new world only frombeyond death, from the power that has conquered death.

It is the wonderful theme of the Bible, so frightening for many people, that the only visible sign of God in the world is the cross.

I want to experience everything heaven offers, but most of all, I want to hear those never-ending songs again.

We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

Yet here we are, sitting in a restaurant, surrounded by people, many of whom are probably lost and going to hell, and we won't say a word about how they can have eternal life. Something is wrong with us. "You're absolutely right," I said. "We're willing to save someone in a visible crisis, but a lot of folks are in spiritual crisis and we don't say a word about how they can get out of it.

Heaven was many things, but without a doubt, it was the greatest family reunion of all.

Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I'll stay.