Eternal Life Quotes

• Three means by which God assures us that we do have eternal life: 1. The promises of His Word, 2. The witness of the Spirit in our hearts, 3. The transforming work of the Spirit in our lives.

  Jerry Bridges

  Heart, Mean, Promise

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• Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Christ, Immortality, Adam

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• You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Waiting, Heaven

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• For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Christian, Journey, Men

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• Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life Is, Gift From God, Eternal

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.183, Discovery House

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• To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.

  Rob Bell

  Quality, Vitality, Connections

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• What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Things In Life, Giving

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• And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

  Francis of Assisi

  Death, Dying, Born

  Francis of Assisi (2017). “St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers”, p.72, Paper & Ink

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• The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

  Angelo Scola

  Happy Life, Ends, Destination

  "Milan Cardinal Scola quotes Kerouac to youthful flock as speculation on papal chances swirl", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2013.

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• The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time.
  God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Opportunity, Views

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Perfection, Joy

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• My salvation does not hinge on my emotions. I have an official record. I have the Word of God: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life."

  Adrian Rogers

  Believe, Son, Names

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• Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ambition, Wish, Looks

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• We don't have eternal life because we're good, we have it because God is good.

  Craig Groeschel

  Eternal

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2015

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• Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.

  Francine Rivers

  Jesus, Hands, Given

  Francine Rivers (2011). “An Echo in the Darkness”, p.74, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Political, Voting

  Television broadcast, 27 Oct. 1964

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• Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Blessed, Home, Heaven

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  O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love You, Love Life, Generosity

  Francis of Assisi (2017). “St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers”, p.72, Paper & Ink

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• In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.

  Frederick Buechner

  Finals, Christ, Eternal

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Choices, Survival, Literature

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• Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

  Sydney J. Harris

  People, Immortality, Knows

  Sydney J. Harris (1957). “Majority of one”

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• By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Giving, Headstone, Wells

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• The reward of eternal life requires effort.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Effort, Rewards, Eternal

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• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Death, Mean

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Children, Believe

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