Quotes about Eternity
The resurrection constitutes, as it were, the womb of the new aeon, out of which believers issue as, in a new, altogether unprecedented, sense, sons of God: "They are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection," therefore they neither marry, nor are given in marriage (Lk. xx. 35-36).
— Geerhardus Vos
Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.
— Geerhardus Vos
He who is united to Christ and lives within the circle of his love, to him the eternal retention of the supreme eschatological life is absolutely secure.
— Geerhardus Vos
The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.
— Geerhardus Vos
O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.
— George Eliot
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
— George Eliot
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude...
— George Eliot
Are you afraid?" asked Alma. "No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.
— Isabel Allende
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.
— Elbert Hubbard
Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee, All things are passing, God changeth never.
— Teresa of Avila
A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.
— Anonymous
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.
— CS Lewis