154 Quotes About Eternal-life

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.

Jesus was able to die as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29), because He was without sin (Heb. 4:15). He was qualified to be an adequate substitute so mankind doesn't have to die (1 Pet. 3:18), but instead can receive the forgiveness of sins (Matt. 26:28).

Believing in the possibility of resurrection and eternal life, Christians seek ‘redemption’ through moral behaviour. But moral behaviour does not, in itself, assuage fear of death, on the contrary, when people come to view themselves as marred by Sin, for instance because they are taught to believe that their most intimate feelings are sinful, this may increase significantly their anxiety about dying.

Take away the pomp and circumstance, at the end of the day, only eternal things will be truly celebrated.

And when my days run out, I will have lived just a blink of time and the rest will be eternal joy.

The Buddha challenged the idea of an immutable soul. He said nothing about the mutable soul, and its survival, though his successors in most streams of Buddhism have had a lot to say on this subject. For all their words, the question of what happens when one dies remains a mystery.

Death done well is a life gathered at the edges, wrapped neatly and packaged to be unpackaged in eternity.

Navajo heaven is not a solemn gray high refuse heap for humble failures.

As a Christian, our existence here on earth is a sliver of the eternal pie. Our focus should be on the whole pie, and not the sliver.