John Tillotson Quotes

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.

We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must resist every attempt of Satan to palm off upon us the values that belong to mortality. Nothing less than forever is long enough for us.

We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

Only those who live forever can act like there's time to waste.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

The least foolish is wise.

We see ourselves as yesterday and today. Heavenly Father sees us as forever.

Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!

What I value most next to eternity is time.

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

Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.

To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.