A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the insignificance of material possessions in the grand scheme of eternity.
D. A. Carson's quote suggests that as time stretches into eternity, the importance we place on our material possessions or 'toys' diminishes significantly. It encourages us to consider what truly matters in life, emphasizing that our earthly accumulations will lose their value compared to the vastness of time and existence.
In practice
Beginning a speech about living a meaningful life rather than focusing on material gain.
Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.
You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again.
I must go in, the fog is rising.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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