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.
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.
Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?
It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.
According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated
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