Eternal Focus Quotes

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.

If you find yourself loving any pleasure more than your prayers, any book better than the Bible, any house better than the house of the Lord, any table better than the Lord's table, any persons better than Christ, or any indulgence better than the hope of heaven – be alarmed.

My hope and treasure lies above

A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.

Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

The only way to always be relevant is to focus on what's eternal. Everything in style will soon be out of style.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.