Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. Author: C.S. Lewis |
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. Author: C.S. Lewis |
Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever. Author: C.S. Lewis |
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. Author: C.S. Lewis |
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. Author: David Brainerd |
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I love to live on the brink of eternity. Author: David Brainerd |
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being. Author: Francois Fenelon |
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky |
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick |
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. Author: Helen Keller |
God, the Eternal God, is Love. Covet therefore that everlasting gift, that one thing which it is certain is going to stand, that one coinage which will be current in the universe when all other coinages of all the nations of the world shall be useless and unhonored. Author: Henry Drummond |