Eternity

July 6, 2015

“Not called!” did you say?
“Not heard the call,” I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face—whose mercy you have professed to obey—and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.

– William Booth –

July 4, 2015

People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives … and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

– Nate Saint –

April 4, 2015

The Lord cannot forget you. If you stood before God in your own righteousness, then I see how you might be separated from His love and care. But you stand before Him in Christ, and Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. You will be held in everlasting remembrance. The world may forget you, your friends may forget you; this is a forgetting world. You may not have a tombstone over your grave, but God will not forget you.

– Robert Murray McCheyne –

April 1, 2015

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

– Jim Elliot –
from his Journal, October 28, 1949

January 17, 2015

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 –

January 6, 2015

At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, “This is just the beginning.” How wonderful for those who are with Christ. How unimaginably dreadful for those who are not.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

December 27, 2014

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 –

September 19, 2014

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

– John Piper –

September 12, 2014

Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.

– Hudson Taylor –