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?
– Randy Alcorn
Finances | Eternity
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.
– Augustine
Death | Eternity
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
– William Penn
Death | Eternity | Time
Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?
– C.S. Lewis
Eternity
I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them.
– Isaac Watts
Faith | Eternity
It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.
– Thomas Fuller
Friendship | Eternity
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Christianity | Eternity
At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.
– Rick Warren
Eternity
Right now counts forever.
– R. C. Sproul
Eternity
Satan’s greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.
– John Owen
Satan | Eternity
Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
– Watchman Nee
Eternity | The Cross | Resurrection
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.
– Martin Luther
Eternity | Nature | Resurrection
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.
– David Jeremiah
The Holy Spirit | Eternity
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.
– Robert Murray McCheyne
Eternity
God has set Eternity in our heart, and man’s infinite capacity cannot be filled or satisfied with the things of time and sense.
– F.B. Meyer
Eternity | Time
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Christians | Eternity | History
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.
– Francois Fenelon
Eternity
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!
– John Bunyan
Christ | Salvation | Eternity
Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
– C.S. Lewis
Life | Eternity | Time
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.
– Rick Warren
Life | Eternity
There’s not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
– Alan Keyes
Eternity
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.
– Augustine
Blessings | Eternity
When you live in the light of eternity, your values change.
– Rick Warren
Eternity | Change
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.
– John Wesley
God | Eternity
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
– William Barclay
Eternity
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.
– Henry Drummond
Eternity | Love
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.
– Henry Drummond
Love | 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.
– Henry Drummond
Love | 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.
– John Flavel
Eternity
I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
– John Wesley
Judging | Eternity
Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.
– Rick Warren
Eternity
Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God’s eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
– C.S. Lewis
Life | Eternity
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.
– C.S. Lewis
God | Eternity
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Eternity
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.
– J. C. Ryle
Life | Eternity
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.
– Theodore Epp
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Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
– James H. Aughey
Eternity | Selfishness
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Eternity | Prophecy | Beauty
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.
– Thomas a Kempis
Virtue | 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?
– G.V. Wigram
Eternity | Holiness
There’s not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
– Alan Keyes
Eternity
“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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Eternity
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Eternity
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.
– Thomas Watson
Eternity
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
– C.S. Lewis
Eternity
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
– Jeremy Taylor
Eternity | Time
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.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Eternity | Believing
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
– C.S. Lewis
Eternity
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
– William Law
Eternity
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Eternity
When you transfer into eternity, you will leave everything else behind. All you’re taking with you is your character.
– Rick Warren
Eternity
The imperious claim of a Kingdom upon its members is not peculiar to Christianity. It is the law in all departments of Nature that every organism must live for its Kingdom. And in defining living FOR the higher Kingdom as the condition of living in it, Christ enunciates a principle which all Nature has prepared us to expect.
– Henry Drummond
Eternity
I know what Eternity is, though I cannot define the word to satisfy a metaphysician. The little child taught by some grandmother Lois, in a cottage, knows what she means when she tells him “you will live forever,” though both scholar and teacher would be puzzled to put it into other words.
– Alexander MacLaren
Eternity
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?
– William Wilberforce
Eternity | Conscience | Justice
To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won’t be here long, so don’t get too attached.
– Rick Warren
Life | Eternity
The best moment of a Christian’s life is his last one, because it is the one that is nearest heaven. And then it is that he begins to strike the keynote of the song which he shall sing to all eternity.
– Charles Spurgeon
Eternity
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
– C.S. Lewis
Eternity
In some way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
– C.S. Lewis
Eternity | Love
The idea which shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
– C.S. Lewis
Eternity
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do you mean that they shall be for you?
– Alexander MacLaren
Eternity
I know what Eternity is, though I cannot define the word to satisfy a metaphysician. The little child taught by some grandmother Lois, in a cottage, knows what she means when she tells him “you will live forever,” though both scholar and teacher would be puzzled to put it into other words.
– Alexander MacLaren
Eternity
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
– William Law
Eternity | Time
I love to live on the brink of eternity.
– David Brainerd
Life | Eternity
Our Lord God doeth work like a printer, who setteth the letters backward; we see and feel well His setting, but we shall see the print yonder in the life to come.
– Martin Luther
Eternity
Time is given us to use in view of eternity.
– Harry Ironside
Life | Eternity | Time
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
– Daniel Webster
Eternity
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
– Helen Keller
Eternity
The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.
– C.S. Lewis
Eternity | Salvation
You need to think more about eternity and not less.
– Rick Warren
Eternity
The end is coming–and then what will you do?
– Woodrow Kroll
Eternity
Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do you mean that they shall be for you?
– Alexander MacLaren
Eternity
Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
– Thomas a Kempis
Eternity
It is a high, solemn, almost awful thought for every individual man, that his earthly influence, which has a commencement, will never, through all ages, have an end.
– James H. Aughey
Life | Eternity
I never was without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.
– Assorted Authors
Eternity | Providence | Rewards
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
– David Brainerd
Eternity | The Future
You have eternity to enjoy the honeymoon, but only a short time to prepare for the wedding.
– Woodrow Kroll
Life | Eternity