“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.” ThinkingWorldFirstsLooksMadeSeemsLastsThreeNextSportsRaceHalfPositionBearsTenHappeningsHundredGainsEternityDown AndFinalsAthleteNineBlockLook UpSecondsYardsStrideSprinters Book:I Have Changed Source: I Have Changed
“I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!” WorldLittlesIdeasSeemsNextThis WorldEternityChristmasMixing Author:Evelyn Underhill
“Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don't even really care about you. Don't make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity.” PeopleTryingMeanMatterMightCareNightNextCausesMemoriesSacrificeRegretSourceOppositesEternityMiseryBunchThis LifePleasantOne NightHereafterGood MemoriesOur WeddingHalalPleasant Memories Author:Omar Suleiman
“I am motivated by the fact that in the next 365 days, 136,000 Californians will die and most of them will go into an eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 2.4 million Americans will die; most of them will go into eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 74 million people in the world will go into eternity without Christ and without hope. I can't live with that.” PeopleWorldI CanFactsDiesNextChristMillionsEternityMotivatedWithout HopeCalifornians Author:Rick Warren
“The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.” TodayJoyNextChristTomorrowWorshipEternityPrivilegeSundayToday And Tomorrow Author:Kevin DeYoung
“We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to suffer in this life than in the next, since one moment of suffering willingly accepted for the love God, is worth an eternity of happiness.” KnowsMomentsHandsSufferingNextKissingEternityStrikesAcceptedGods WillThis LifeGod LoveSubmit Author:Margaret Mary Alacoque
“We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity.” YearsFirstsRealLife IsNextRaceReadyEternityDressesTrackWarmThis LifePreparationLapRehearsal Author:Rick Warren
“I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.” MindNextWatchesSawsGenerationsEternityCastsDecadesClockRoofAlarmsMy GenerationBallotsAlarm Clocks Author:Allen Ginsberg
“Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.” IfsWayGivingMeanImportantJoyHateNextStrongGriefEmotionAnxietyEternityHarmonySevenPatientKarmaInclinationAdorationHolding BackShoguns Book:SHOGUN Source: SHOGUN
“There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.” ThinkingEndsMomentsTodayLastsNextWeekCenturyTomorrowRainEternityNext DayPermanenceNext Week Book:Dawn: A Novel Source: Dawn: A Novel
“Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.” MenWorldCharacterNextConditionsThis WorldEternityStamps Author:Nathanael Emmons
“There are no ultimate ends. Only games and more games. The winner this round is the loser the next round. Only the game is eternal. And the game is always the same, if you never change the rules.” IfsEndsNextGamesChangeEternalUltimateEternityRoundsWinnerLoserNever Change Author:Gerard Jones
“No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'” LifeInspirationalNextInspirational LifeEternalAppreciateEternityAppreciationThis LifeBoredLive LifeBoredomIslamicAfterlifeMuslimLife Is ShortHereafterShort LifeAppreciate LifeShortness Author:Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
“My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.” ShouldMightEarthLife IsNextJesusRealizingMy OwnLordGenerationsEternityComparisonNext GenerationSowingOne Life To LiveBrief Life Author:George Muller