Best eternity & religious Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.”

Religious Christianity Capacity Eternity Daring Living Fully

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.”

Feels Ideas Religious Common Christianity Nice Eternity Salvation Common Sense Fanatics Exclusion Religious Fanatics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.”

“Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.”

“When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.”

Giving Firsts Heart Soul Care Christian Desire Religious Divine Draws Eternity Riches Arise Thee Vanity Cherish Sparks

Book:I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus

Source: I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus

“Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.”

Men Mind Body Would Be Joy Enjoy Religious Pleasure Knowing Sacrifice Eternity Including Believer Fervent

Author:Bertrand Russell

“When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and societal meanings - religious, legal, sexual - encompassing mortality and sin and family and eternity.”

Thinking Religious Sin Example Concepts Eternity Medical Mortality Infertility

Author:Monica Youn

“The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.”

Reason Pain Religion Christ Religious Ignorance Eternity Notion Unhappy Absurd Observation Insanity Bliss Merit Dependence Everlasting Mixtures Refutation

Book:On The Gods and Other Essays

Source: On The Gods and Other Essays

“True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity”

Mean Faith Hope Religious Eternity Christian Inspirational Thought Provoking Preacher Betting True Faith

Book:Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?”

Heart Long Moments Religion Names Heaven Religious Perfect Lord Five Grace Minutes Eternity Vain Decent Wicked That Moment Good Work Five Minutes Long Life Heart Attack Outburst

Book:Job, a Comedy of Justice

Source: Job, a Comedy of Justice

“I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.”

“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.”

Love Kind War Soul Body Remember Religious Hell Fire Alive Eternal Eternity Intention Saving Burned Gentleness Religious Wars Saving Souls

Book:Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

“For those who love dogs, it would be the worst form of a lie to call any place where dogs were banned "Paradise." Certainly no loving God would separate people from their canine friends for eternity.”

People Would Be Form Lying Religious Loss Animal Worst Dog Eternity Grieving Paradise Loving God Banned Canine Dog Love Dog Loss

Book:The Modern Dog: A Joyful Exploration of How We Live with Dogs Today

Source: The Modern Dog: A Joyful Exploration of How We Live with Dogs Today

“Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.”

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Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere.”

Believe Persons God Certain Individual Religious Knowing Grace Particular Eternity Foundation Damn Theologian Persevere Foresight Preventing Decree Foreseeing

Author:Jacobus Arminius

“Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.”

Ifs Matter Light Order Religious Eternity Profession Worldly Vocation

Book:Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman

“The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him.”

God Age Christian Science Christ Religious Lord Knowledge Ocean Shadow Eternity Profound Boundless Unfolding Greatness Of God Puritan Clergymen Christian Science

Book:The Fountain of Life Opened, Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory: Containing 42 Sermons on Various Texts ...

Source: The Fountain of Life Opened, Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory: Containing 42 Sermons on Various Texts ...

“We should ask ourselves: What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know what that counsel is if we do not listen.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Should Asks Given Religious Vision Blessing Overcoming Eternity Prophet Self Reliance Reliance Brethren Preparedness

Author:James E. Faust

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