Quotes about Eternity

If what one finds is made of pure matter,it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion.

If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

If [we] have no chosen the kingdom of God [first], it will make in the end no difference what [we] have chosen instead.

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

A fallen planet is no easy place to live. Ya, but heaven is.

Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,

Theology leads through soteriology to eschatology.

The gospel gives us a standard by which we can judge phenomena and events; it is an absolute measure which enables us to determine the value of the present life; it is a guide to show us the way in the labyrinth of the present world; it raises us above time, and teaches us to view all things from the standpoint of eternity.

The truth is of more value than empirical life: Christ sacrificed his life for it.

The heaven that he won for us by his atoning death presupposes a hell from which he delivered us. The eternal life he imparted to us presupposes an eternal death from which he saved us.