Quotes about Eternity
God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is holiness in time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not utility that we seek in religion but eternity.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We often feel how poor the edifice would be were it built exclusively of our rituals and deeds which are so awkward and often so obtrusive. How else express glory in the presence of eternity, if not by the silence of abstaining from noisy acts?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
— Abraham Lincoln
When did Jesus start loving you? He never did—He has always loved you. He loved you before time began. He loved you before He swung this planet into space. You were in the heart and mind of God before the foundation of the world.
— Adrian Rogers
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
— Adrian Rogers
God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.
— Derek Prince
The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and that anyone who lays violent hands on man here, is infringing eternal laws, and taking upon himself superhuman authority, which will eventually crush him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existence.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer