Quotes on Eternity & Hope Beyond Death
Christian quotes on Eternity & Hope Beyond Death — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
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
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C.S. Lewis
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
I want you to know that we will reach God's kingdom. That's why I am happy today. I am not worried about anything. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming Lord.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Whoever knows Easter cannot despair.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We do not know what is coming; but we know who is coming. That means: losing fear, because I know the final reality.
Helmut Thielicke
Death in its substance has been removed, and only the shadow of it remains… Nobody is afraid of a shadow, for a shadow cannot block a man’s pathway for even a moment. The shadow of a dog can’t bite; the shadow of a sword can’t kill.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”
C.S. Lewis
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity.
Horatius Bonar
I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without Him.
Martin Luther
It may be that the Last Day will dawn tomorrow; if so, we will gladly lay down our work for a better future, but not before.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Only the Christian can live fully in the present. For the past is crossed out for him, and the future is certain for him.
Jochen Klepper
God does not merely patch things up. Redeemed humanity will be something more glorious than unfallen humanity ever would have been.
C.S. Lewis
Nature is transient, and we shall outlive her. When all suns and nebulae have passed away, each of us will still be alive.
C.S. Lewis
Glory means: the door on which we have been knocking all our lives will now be opened.
C.S. Lewis
When I must one day depart, do not depart from me! When I must suffer death, then stand in for me!
Paul Gerhardt
Death is the side facing us of that whole whose other side is called resurrection.
Romano Guardini
The very darkest ways of God, which we understand least here, will one day shine in eternity in the brightest light of his eternal love.
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
Christians are not fobbed off with promises of the afterlife, but comforted from the afterlife.
Peter Hahne
When the Easter message dawns on us, we suddenly find ourselves surrounded by life, where before we had a future hedged in by worries.
Helmut Thielicke
We step out of the shadow soon into a bright light. We step through the veil before God's face. We lay down the burden, the weary garment of earth. We are done with worries and with the last suffering. We step out of the darkness now into a bright light. Why we call it dying? I do not know.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It will not be death that comes for me, but God.
Thérèse of Lisieux
The greatest day in human history was not when the first man walked on the moon, but when God's Son came to earth.
James Benson Irwin
Everything must turn out well, because Christ is risen.
Søren Kierkegaard
God keeps his promise. Look for yourself. In the manger. He is there. Look for yourself. In the tomb. He is no longer there.
Max Lucado
One day God will wipe away your tears. The hands that created space will touch your cheeks. The hands that clenched in agony when the nail pierced them will one day cup your face and wipe your tears away.
Max Lucado
The God who surrounds us now in life will also receive us in death and embrace us in his loving arms.
Anselm Grün
Our life on earth is only the first page of the book, not the last.
Corrie ten Boom
Whoever has heard the Easter message can no longer walk around with a tragic face, leading the humorless existence of a person without hope.
Karl Barth
The end of our life will be a pause in the middle of the furrow. The Lord reserves for himself to complete our works and give them the final polish.
Pope John XXIII
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardner.
George Herbert
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven’s door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.
Samuel Rutherford
Ye have lost a child; nay, she is not lost to you, who is found in Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star which, going out of sight, does not die and vanish, but shines in another hemisphere.
Samuel Rutherford
Tears are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves.
Matthew Henry
The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.
Alexander MacLaren
The very happiest persons I have ever met with have been departing believers. The only people for whom I have felt any envy have been dying members of this very church, whose hands I have grasped in their passing away. Almost without exception I have seen in them holy delight and triumph. And in the exceptions to this exceeding joy I have seen deep peace, exhibited in a calm and deliberate readiness to enter into the presence of their God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You will tell the others that I am going home a little sooner than I thought. Then tell them not to talk about the servant but to talk about the Savior.
F. B. Meyer
People quoted here
Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Piper, C.S. Lewis, Jim Elliot, Martin Luther King Jr., Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Helmut Thielicke, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Horatius Bonar, Martin Luther, Jochen Klepper, Paul Gerhardt
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