Quotes about Eternity
In the Christian scheme of things, this world and the time spent here are not all there is. Earth is a proving ground, a dot in eternity — albeit an important dot, for Jesus said our destiny depends on our obedience here.
— Philip Yancey
We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life.
— Philip Yancey
In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
But there is another change coming for you and me down the road. Are we ready for this? There will come a day—sooner or later—when God will say, "Your time is up." We all have to die. What is more, everything that we are doing in this life should be getting us ready for that day. So I am now going to ask you: Do you know for sure that if you were to die today, you would go to heaven? It is the most important question anybody can
— RT Kendall
There is no UHaul behind the hearse.
— Denzel Washington
What Jesus did for me on the cross contained all I would ever need for time and eternity—physically, spiritually, materially, emotionally.
— Derek Prince
21."To the uttermost" (Heb. 7:25) means "completely." This includes every need of every sinner now and forever. Jesus
— Derek Prince
Today is a part of eternity.
— Gordon Hinckley
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
— Isabel Allende
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
— Isabel Allende
Rarely do we see a person so entirely taken up with spiritual matters, that attention to this world's affairs is made a secondary matter or postponed. And why is it so? Simply because true conversions to God are uncommon.
— JC Ryle
I want to know one thing,—the way to heaven—how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end he came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Oh, give me that book! At any price give me the book of God! I have it: here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be a man of one book.
— JC Ryle