77 Quotes About Eternity

He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he's moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain. He who spends his life moving toward his treasures has reason to rejoice. Are you despairing or rejoicing?

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

Right now counts forever.

I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.

Don't let obstacles along the road to eternity shake your confidence in God's promise. The Holy Spirit is God's seal that you will arrive.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right - something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise. It will be too late then to choose your side.

God has set Eternity in our heart, and man's infinite capacity cannot be filled or satisfied with the things of time and sense.

I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!

"Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself." Get these ingredients into your life. Then everything that you do is eternal. It is worth doing. It is worth giving time to.

Just as the nine months you spent in your mother's womb were not an end in themselves but preparation for life, so this life is preparation for the next.

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?

You need to think more about eternity and not less.

When you live in the light of eternity, your values change.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

The sea is an excellent figure of the fullness of God, and that of the blessed Spirit. For as the rivers all return into the sea; so the bodies, the souls, and the good works of the righteous, return into God, to live there in his eternal repose.

We know but little now about the conditions of the life that is to come. But what is certain is that Love must last. God, the Eternal God, is Love. Covet, therefore, that everlasting gift.

God, the Eternal God, is Love. Covet therefore that everlasting gift, that one thing which it is certain is going to stand, that one coinage which will be current in the universe when all other coinages of all the nations of the world shall be useless and unhonored.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Time is given us to use in view of eternity.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will be abiding wrath, or wrath still coming. When millions of years and ages are past and gone, this will still be wrath to come. Ever coming as a river ever flowing.

Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

The difference God's timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

You were placed here to train for eternity. Your body was only intended to be a house for your immortal spirit. It is flying in the face of God's purposes to do as many do - to make the soul a servant to the body, and not the body a servant to the soul.

We are so easily entangled in earthly affairs and so easily consumed with the desire for those things that do not last. We will not live on this earth forever, so even our trials should be viewed in the light of eternity.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

Influence never dies; every act, emotion, look and word makes influence tell for good or evil, happiness or woe, through the long future of eternity.

Are you ready to go at once straight into heaven, if the gates were thrown open? What manner of persons ought we to be to say it! Are we walking in a way perfectly consistent with stepping tonight at once into the glory, to be at home in the Father's house?

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

"But," a man said to me, "no one has come back, and we don't know what is in the future. It is all dark, and how can we be sure?" Thank God! Christ came down from heaven, and I would rather have Him coming as he does right from the bosom of the Father, than any one else. We can rely on what Christ says, and He says, "He that believeth on Me shall not perish, but have everlasting life." Not that we are going to have it when we die, but right here to-day.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.