Quotes about Eternity

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

Everything God does and everything God calls us to only make sense from the perspective of eternity. If there is no end to the story, believers are a bunch of fools who need to be pitied. There is no reason for what we have tried to do. But there is a final chapter! God has opened it up so that we could look in and then look back to our lives with understanding and hope.

The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.' Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell.

When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

People who die bad don't stay in the ground.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

You know as well as I do that people who die bad don't stay in the ground.

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever.

Just Imagine. No illness. Ever. No pain. No aging or frailty of any kind. No loss or grief or tears. And obviously no more dying, not even if the stars shattered into motes and the moon disintegrated like a corpse beneath the sea.