Eric Metaxas Quotes

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

God didn't create the universe so that talented people would be happy.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

We feel and know that we are eternal.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.