ETERNITY!

Psalm 90:1-6 

90 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

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Psalm 90:10 

10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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A thousand years! This is a long stretch of time. How much may be crowded into it — the rise and fall of empires, the glory and obliteration of dynasties, the beginning and the end of elaborate systems of human philosophy, and countless events — all important to individuals, which elude the pens of historians. Yet this period is to the Lord as nothing, even as time already gone. If a thousand years are to God as a single night-watch — then what must be the life-time of the Eternal God!  

~Charles Spurgeon 

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Before the Eternal God, all the age of frail man is less than one ticking of a clock! 

~Charles Spurgeon 

O think a little, how inconsiderable a thing is the longest life of man on earth — compared with an everlasting duration! The psalmist tells us, "You have made my days as an handbreadth, and my age — my life, my time on earth — is as nothing to You" — nothing, as compared with God's duration, which is without beginning or end!  

~John Shower

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This life, upon which everything depends — is very brief.
How solemn this is! In Scripture, time is compared to . . .
  a flower of the field;
  a watch in the night;
  a dream;
  a vapor.
~William Jay 

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How little a while we are to abide here on earth. After death we must abide forever in eternal bliss — or in eternal torments. We will either be with God in endless glory — or in everlasting fire with the devil and his demons! 

~John Shower

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Eternity to the godly, is a day that has no sunset.
Eternity to the godless, is a night that has no sunrise. 

~Thomas Watson

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O God, stamp eternity on my eyeballs! 

~Jonathan Edwards

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Eternity! O that the sinner would study this word — methinks it would startle him out of his dead sleep!
O that the gracious soul would study it — methinks it would revive him in his deepest agony! 

~Richard Baxter

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The crosses and comforts of this present time would not make such an impression upon us as they do — if we did but believe the things of eternity as we ought. 

~Matthew Henry

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We must not forget that the issues of eternity, are settled in time. 

~Arthur Pink

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The great weight of eternity, hangs upon the small wire of time! 

~Thomas Brooks
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A mistake about your soul, is a mistake for eternity! 

~J.C. Ryle  

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Psalm 90:12 

12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

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