“EARTH LIFE with its joys and sorrows is a necessary part of our eternal existence. Its purposes are to prepare us to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father and to provide the way whereby we may receive a fulness of joy.” WayLifeMayEarthJoyPurposeFatherExistenceReturnSorrowEternalEternityPreparationHeavenlyHeavenly FatherJoys And SorrowsEarth Life Book:For They Shall Be Comforted Source: For They Shall Be Comforted
“When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.” KnowsUseEarthFatherSpeakHeavenSoundCompanySonPromiseEternalCrossesEternityInfiniteKingdomsParadiseFollowersThievesEchoesPointingApostles Author:Adrienne von Speyr
“When you ... see our Father, you will see a being with whom you have long been acquainted, and He will receive you into His arms, and you will be ready to fall into His embrace and kiss Him. ... You will be so glad and joyful. ... When you are qualified and purified, ... you can endure the glory of eternity.” LongFallFatherReadyArmsKissingGloryEternityEmbraceEndureGladGod LoveJoyfulHistoricQualifiedOur Father Author:Brigham Young
“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity.” LittlesLongLife IsFatherFourSonEternalEternityLove LifeEchoesLife Is ShortBentley Author:Marcus Aurelius
“My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.” ThinkingWorldMaySoulMatterBodyFormCertainFatherSpeakPeriodsConsequenceEternityInfiniteMethodConstantConfinedSuccessionAnnihilationAlterationsSoul And Body Book:The Meditations: Translated from the Greek Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek
“We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born.” FirstsWellsSpiritFatherJesusBornWifeEternityPolygamy Author:Orson Pratt
“We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?” WayChildrenDoeStillsPastFacesFatherForceSocialChangeBehindsEternityOur ChildrenShouldersResistanceOne WayWhy NotStatus QuoOur FatherReluctantStumblingRelics Book:The Home Source: The Home
“We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!” MayLongDeathDiesFatherSeaSolitudeEternityLipsWaveStreamsShoreAssuranceNot AloneAccompanyVergeAccompany Us Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin