eternity

Understanding what it means to die, to sever oneself of the foolish hope for immortality, is what allows human beings the capability to appreciate simple pleasures and endure whatever hardships living a full life requires. Eternity is beautiful whereas time is unredeemable and problematic. Our faith, our hopes, and our love exist only in points of time. We discover eternity by avoiding the snares of prejudice and mental delusion, using the memory of whole civilizations to understand the past, and employing human consciousness to transcend fluctuations in time.

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from__ut where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once__nd you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren__ really there at all. There isn__ anybody but me__ane__ere alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!

What you do with Christ here and now decides where you shall spend eternity.

Jesus taught that there is an eternal destiny for each individual__ither heaven or hell (John 5:25_29). The eternal destiny of each individual depends on a decision made in this life (Luke 16:19_31)__o be followed by a life of obedience.

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

Where will we spend eternity__ith God in that place of endless joy the Bible calls heaven, or apart from Him in that place of endless despair the Bible calls hell?

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths__he truth of God__ eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

[Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost__hile thinking they are saved because they belong to the church, or were baptized.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

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Man_who lives in three places _ in the past, in the present, and in the future _ can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth _ eternity.

He holds her for an eternity. Time cascades into the void of the past. She inhales his scent. Full of man and strength and yearning. And she wonders why she ever doubted their relationship. Why she let Julian__ soothing touch coax her into loving him too. Gage is everything. Gage is hers.