Quotes about Eternity

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee."

true encounter with the God of the universe makes me feel gladly small, perfectly puny, and happily so, in my assigned place and actual size! A true experience of eternity leaves us feeling, as C. S. Lewis said, "the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life."28

Jesus said, "If anyone enters by me, he will be saved" (John 10:9). That includes you, and it refers to something that can take place now. If you have not yet trusted Jesus, You can trust Him now. Today is the day of salvation.

Infinite players die. Since the boundaries of death are always part of the play, the infinite player does not die at the end of the play, but in the course of play.

Infinite players regard their wins and losses in whatever finite games they play as but moments in continuing play.

Life in death concerns those who are titled and whose titles, since they are timeless, may not be extinguished by death. Immortality, in this case, is not a reward but the condition necessary to the possession of rewards. Victors live forever not because their souls are unaffected by death but because their titles must not be forgotten.

The passage of time is always relative to that which does not pass, to the timeless.

Infinite players cannot say when their game began, nor do they care.

Infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarreling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes of it.

If you want it your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of your own way forever.

what does old Donne say? "God knows in what part of the world every grain of every man's dust lies

But He, unshaken, with exultant voice cried, It is finished! and gave up the ghost. Finished--when men had thought it scarce begun.