Quotes about Eternity

Let us remember that while life is promised in Christ to all who believe, only a small part of the people are believers.

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.

The Holy City shall not be moved from its place because God dwells in it and is always ready to bring it help.

The glory of God is the highest end, to which our sanctification is subordinate.

It is not for us to ask the Lord to discharge us from his army, no matter what fighting we have done. For Christ will have no discharged soldiers, except those who have overcome death itself.

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.

we must realize that death was not a pleasure or a game for Christ, and that he suffered excruciation to the utmost for our sakes.

Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No

The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner

The only reason for security is that our salvation is in God's hand. Our

For even if the Word in his immeasurable essence united with the nature with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that he was confined therein. Here is something marvelous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, he willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet he continuously filled the world even as he had done from the beginning.

From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal.