Puritan writer Thomas Watson said, “Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.” Eternity is the grand climax of all history. It is the age to come when every person will acknowledge Jesus as Lord. Eternity will bring to this world all God intended for us. Sin will have been judged and banished. Rewards will have been presented. Life will continue with new vitality, meaning, and perfection. What an age that will be!
— George Sweeting (1924–2024), Evangelist, Prediger, Radiosprecher, Buchautor, Präsident des Moody Bible Institute
Topics: Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Hope & Confidence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Occasions: For Reflection
George Sweeting
George Sweeting (1924–2024) war ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Pastor, Evangelist und Buchautor, der unter anderem als Leiter der Moody Church und langjähriger Präsident des Moody Bible Institute in Chicago wirkte. Er prägte die evangelikale Bildungs- und Medienlandschaft maßgeblich durch den Ausbau des Moody Radio Network und Veröffentlichungen zu Themen wie Evangelisation und geistlicher Reife. Bibellesern begegnen seine Texte heute vor allem als praktische Denkanstöße zu Nachfolge, Großzügigkeit und Ausdauer im Glauben.
All quotes by George Sweeting (11)
I ask myself: what does hell mean? I maintain: it is the inability to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
C.S. Lewis
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whoever knows Easter cannot despair.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Helmut Thielicke
Charles Haddon Spurgeon