Quotes about Eternity
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
— Jonathan Edwards
Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.
— Eric Metaxas
Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.
— Stanley Hauerwas
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.
— Richard Baxter
Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.
— Richard Baxter
How will it fill our souls with perpetual joy, to think that in the streams of this blood we have swum through the violence of the world, the snares of Satan, the seductions of flesh, the curse of the law, the wrath of an offended God, the accusations of a guilty conscience, and the vexing doubts and fears of an unbelieving heart, and are arrived safely at the presence of God!
— Richard Baxter
As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Christ and eternity, so should we no further approve of our own hearts (483).
— Richard Baxter
Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.
— Richard Baxter
You come hither to learn to die, I am not the only person that must go this way: I can assure you, that your whole life, be it ever so long, is little enough to prepare for death. Have a care of this vain deceitful world and the lusts of the flesh: Be sure you choose God for your portion, heaven for your home, God's glory for your end, his word for your rule, and then you need never fear but we shall meet with comfort.
— Richard Baxter
O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).
— Richard Baxter
Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)?
— Richard Baxter