Quotes about Eternity
Death is the gate of life.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.
— CS Lewis
The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.
— DL Moody
To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.
— John Bunyan
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
— St. Augustine
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.
— Thomas Merton
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
— Ashley Montagu
The most thrilling thing about heaven is that Jesus Christ will be there. I will see Him face to face. Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life's journey.
— Billy Graham
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
— St. Augustine
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
— St. Augustine
Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.
— Thomas Merton