Quotes about Eternity

Imagine no more tears, no more sorrow, no more pain... and one day we will forever be with Jesus.

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity. Scripture tells us that even Jesus 'learned obedience through suffering14—and if that was true for him, why wouldn't it be even more true for us?

Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: "You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you're right with God. There's no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: 'I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.