Written by Pastor Jack Wellman 76
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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
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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
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn
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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
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At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.
- Rick Warren
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It the best to be with those in time, that we hope to be within eternity.
- Thomas Fuller
67
Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
- Watchman Nee
66
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.
- Martin Luther
65
Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.
- John Owen
64
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
62
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
61
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.
- Robert Murray McCheyne
60
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
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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
58
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
56
"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
55
There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
- Alan Keyes
54
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
51
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
50
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
49
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
48
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
47
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
44
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
43
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
42
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
41
Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.
- Rick Warren
40
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
39
Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
- James H. Aughey
38
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
- Jeremy Taylor
37
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
36
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
35
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
34
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
32
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
30
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
29
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
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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
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God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
