Quotes about Eternity

Jesus lived the way he did in this world, for this world, because his hope was set beyond this world; that is the secret of his life. "Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God" (Hebrews 12:2 THE MESSAGE).

For the followers of Jesus, the real finish line is either the return of Jesus or our homecoming to him.

As Athanasius said, "He became what we are that we might become what he is."

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet [shofar]. For the trumpet [shofar] will sound, and the dead will be raised. (1 CORINTHIANS 15:51—52)

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!

Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft swell and fall, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon to death.

All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.