 The idea which shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience. Topics: Eternity
Source: The World's Last Night |
| 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. Topics: Eternity
Source: C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity |
| 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. Topics: Eternity, Prophecy, Beauty |
| All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. Topics: Eternity |
| In some way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less. Topics: Eternity, Love |
| Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever? Topics: Eternity |
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| We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. Topics: Eternity |
| The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said. Topics: Examples |
| Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. Topics: Failure, Achievement |
| Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. Topics: Faith
Source: from a letter "To Mrs. L." |
| We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. Topics: Faith, Doubt |
| Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God. Topics: Faith |
