Jim Elliot Quotes

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends

Time is eternity begun.

If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.