Quotes about Eternity

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

If I take Easter as the starting point, the one incontrovertible fact about how God treats those whom he loves, then human history becomes the contradiction and Easter a preview of ultimate reality.

I can never figure out how to have a friendly conversation with someone when my main point is that they are going to Hell.

Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life," said Roemer after the filming.

A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

C. S. Lewis said, "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

Unlike the scary movies and sermons from my youth, not one of them focuses on personal salvation as a way of escaping hell in the afterlife. Rather, they present how the good news about eternity should transform this life. The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

When God looks upon my life graph, he sees not jagged swerves toward good and bad but rather a steady line of good: the goodness of God's Son captured in a moment of time and applied for all eternity.