D. A. Carson Quotes

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

My bits of time play with eternity.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Eternity bids thee to forget.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

One day Time will die And love will bury it

Eternity - waste of time.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead

Time stays, we go.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.