Pastoral Resources

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.