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Eternity
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“Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.”
“Man no sooner begins to live, but he begins to die; and after a few days, which are but as a span, and pass away more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle.”
“The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.”
“Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset.”
“The soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds!”
“A man that preaches an immortal crown, should not seek much after transitory vanity.”
“Why are not our hearts continually set on heaven? Why dwell we not there in constant contemplation? Bend thy soul to study eternity, busy thyself about the life to come.”
“The wicked in hell shall be always dying but never dead. The smoke of the furnace ascends forever and ever.”
“Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.”
“A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.”
“The race is short between the cradle and the grave!”
“If we remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we will not be so ready to build our nests in them.”
“Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.”
“My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.”
“The principal science is Theology. Theology is the science of living blessedly forever. Blessed life consists in the knowledge of God.”
“It was from eternity that he laid in his own bosom a design for our happiness.”
“What are the honours and riches of this world, when compared to the glories of a crown of life?”
“They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: and all of them shall wax old like a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.”
“For a Christian hath the reality of things: he hath a husband for ever, he hath matter of joy for ever, he hath a possession for ever; and then there will be a new world.”
“Truly, the world is come to that pass; it will not last always.”
“The visible things fade upon the sight, the invisible things unveil their grandeur.”
“What desperate folly is it to venture the loss of eternity for the enjoying of these things!”
“Upon our little, short, uncertain inch of time, depends matters of more consequence than ten thousand, thousand worlds are worth, and if we miscarry in this little time of our lives, we are lost and undone forever.”
“Even the eternity of well or wo to your soul standeth upon the little point of your well or ill-employed, short, and swift-posting sand-glass.”
“But now there are other of God’s saints that trade with God for great things—for immortality and glory and a kingdom, and the crown of eternal life.”
“In our ordinary language we use to say of dying, that it is the change of a mortal life for an immortal life.”
“When you have reckoned up so many myriads and millions of years, nay, ages—as have passed the bounds of all arithmetic, eternity is not yet begun!”
“But the greater is the mercy of God, the more years ye get to advise, upon what terms, and upon what conditions, ye cast your soul in the huge gulf of never-ending eternity.”
“This is a kind of universalism in which we rejoice to believe; for it is predicted by Him who cannot lie, that the earth shall in those latter days be full of the glory of God.”
“It was short then, it is shorter now. 'The time is short.' We are fallen into the latter end of the world.”