Quotes about Eternity

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

If you pour a pail full of water on the floor of your house, it makes a great show, but if you throw it into the sea, there is no sign of it. So, afflictions considered in themselves, we think are very great, but let them be considered with the sea of god's mercies we enjoy, and then they are not so much, they are nothing in comparison.

There is a Heaven within the souls of the saints-that is a certain truth; no soul shall ever come to Heaven, but the soul which has Heaven come to it first. When you die, you hope you will go to Heaven; but if you will go to Heaven when you die, Heaven will come to you before you die. Now this is a great mystery, to have the Kingdom of Heaven in the soul; no man can know this but that soul which has it.

Joy comes from having a relationship with the unchanging God and transcends any trial we can face on this earth.

The Word was made flesh that we might pass from the flesh into the Word.

As it has always been, so shall it ever be. The King is on his throne and is in control.

The first is that God is infinite in His ways as well as His being.

our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

And we should remember that God works in history from an eternal perspective, whereas we tend to view the outworking of history from a temporal perspective.