{"quotes":[{"text":"Often-times, grass was more useful than gold. Man was more desirable than a beast. Chance was more seductive than knowledge, and eternal life was completely meaningless without love.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["beast","chance","eternal-life","gold","knowledge","love","man"],"id":1392,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"...You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["eternal-life","flowers","god-s-will","music"],"id":3977,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you've been given eternal life. 'Whom or what shall you fear?' To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anxiety","apologetics","bravery","christ","christ-jesus","christian","christianity","courage","darkness","death","defensive","doubt","elephant","encouragement","eternal-life","evil","faith","faith-in-god","fear","fearlessness","funny","funny-but-true","god","goodness","humor","inspirational","irrational-fear","jesus","jesus-christ","life","light","love","martyr","motivational","mouse","negativity","obedience","offended","optimism","pessimism","positivity","power","pray","strength","trust","trust-in-god","universe","world","worry"],"id":4189,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Take away the pomp and circumstance, at the end of the day, only eternal things will be truly celebrated.","author":"Robin Bertram","tags":["eternal","eternal-life","eternally","living-life-to-the-fullest","living-well","love-of-god","love","salvation"],"id":19765,"author_id":"Robin+Bertram"},{"text":"No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["art","criminal","eternal-life","freedom","freedom-of-speech-dissent","freedom-of-thought","libertarianism","liberty","ownership","soul"],"id":20401,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.","author":"Audrey Auden","tags":["eternal-life","immortality","mortality","reincarnation"],"id":30871,"author_id":"Audrey+Auden"},{"text":"The complexity of your earthly array is not a guarantee for a truimphant eternity. The fact is that you need a simple life to go to heaven; not an excessively glittering body, shiny lips and charming face.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["beauty-is-vain","body","charming","charming-face","clean-heart","complex-life","eternal","eternal-life","eternity","everlasting-life","garden-of-eden","glitter","glittering","heaven","hell","holy","jesus-christ","life","lipstick","shiny-lips","simple","simple-life","sincere","soul","spirit","truimpant","truimpant-eternity","vanity"],"id":32733,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Death is the end of our ephemeral life and the beginning of an infinite eternal life.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["death","death-is-not-the-end","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","eternal-life","infinite-eternal-life","inspirational","philosophy","quotes"],"id":32872,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Now the soul says, ‘Lord, where shall I go? You have the words of eternal life.’ [John 6: 68] Here he centers, here he settles. It is the entrance of heaven to him; he sees his interest in God.","author":"Joseph Alleine","tags":["bible","christianity","eternal-life","faith","heaven","salvation"],"id":42127,"author_id":"Joseph+Alleine"},{"text":"For there is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty. A person who is trying to eat money is always hungry. When someone says, 'Time to stop now!' he is in a panic because he has had nothing to eat yet, and wants more and more time to go on eating money, ever hopeful of satisfaction around the corner. We do not really want continuity, but rather a present experience of total happiness. The thought of wanting such an experience to go on and on is a result of being self-conscious in the experience, and thus incompletely aware of it. So long as there is the feeling of an 'I' having this experience, the moment is not all. Eternal life is realized when the last trace of difference between 'I' and 'now' has vanished - when there is just this 'now' and nothing else.By contrast, hell or 'everlasting damnation' is not the everlastingness of time going on forever, but of the unbroken circle, the continuity and frustration of going round and round in pursuit of something which can never be attained. Hell is the fatuity, the everlasting impossibility, of self-love, self-consciousness, and seld-possession. It is trying to see one´s own eyes, hear one´s own ears, and kiss one´s own lips.","author":"Alan W. Watts","tags":["anxiety","eternal-life","fear","happiness","meaning-of-life","spirituality"],"id":47861,"author_id":"Alan+W.+Watts"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}