Barenboim said, «Every great work of art has two faces: one toward its own time and one toward the future,
toward eternity.»
They are a living love story, two hearts time - stitched into one, beautiful old souls stepping in tandem
toward eternity.
But when I stop to think of all the human beings headed
toward an eternity apart from Christ, in a place that originally was prepared for Satan and his demonic forces... Wow... my heart breaks!
But in the face of the Gospel, sub specie aeternitatis (and the Gospel points
us toward eternity), these distinctions and judgments are quite unimportant, indeed irrelevant.
There must be a movement
toward eternity which is movement toward realization but not in a temporal sense.
Catholics also generally take the long view of things — looking back to the time of Christ and the Caesars while also gazing forward
toward eternity.
Not exact matches
The anointed one still walks the road that leads from Nazareth
toward the borderline between time and
eternity, working among the poor, the oppressed, the mourners, the murderers and the murdered in the only body he has right now, the one Paul calls the body of Christ.
We must allow this encounter with
eternity to change us, to turn us from sin and
toward the Lord.
Human temporality represents the fullness of time of the infrahuman space - time dimensions;
toward it they tended as to their eschatological future or «
eternity» in order to be.
The prophetic allows «the evil» to find the direction that leads
toward God, and to enter into the good; the apocalyptic sees good and evil severed forever at the end of days, the good redeemed, the evil unredeemable for all
eternity; the prophetic believes that the earth shall be hallowed, the apocalyptic despairs of an earth which it considers to be hopelessly doomed... (Moses, p. 188; Israel and the World, «The Power of the Spirit,» pp. 176 - 179.)
When we say that a goal of pastoral care is to lead
toward the true valuation of each moment of time as having its destiny in
eternity, we imply no rejection of the worth of this created world.
Eternity has entered time in incarnation and in grace; time is thus held firm, as it were, and made decisive by the presence of eternity, and directed toward i
Eternity has entered time in incarnation and in grace; time is thus held firm, as it were, and made decisive by the presence of
eternity, and directed toward i
eternity, and directed
toward its goal.
The turn of the theoretical focus away from
eternity and
toward the individual or, better, person begins with Christianity.
We turn away from pure
eternity and
toward non-being whenever the soul's affection is directed
toward that which is changing.
The purpose of my book Christ and Time was precisely to show that this belongs to the substance, to the essence of early Christian faith, that it is something not to be surrendered, not to be altered in meaning; yet it has often been mistakenly thought that I intended to write an essay on the New Testament attitude
toward the problem of Time and
Eternity.
I confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given me,... by which I might strive
toward salvation... I should be unable to stand firm... Even if I lived and worked to
eternity, my conscience would never be assured... There would always remain an anxious doubt whether it pleased God.
He turned his eyes away from the ungovernable, essentially inconceivable flow of time, and so away from the very process by which being shows itself, and looked instead
toward a fabulous
eternity of changeless essences, the timeless «ideas» or (more literally) «looks» of things; and it was to this latter realm that he accorded the authority of «truth» while consigning everything proper to time to the sub-philosophical category of «unlikeness.»
Lord God in You is all my hope, and this day I make as a memorial of your love, mercy and faithfulness
toward me, for all
eternity!
Historically our devices have taken nothing short of an
eternity to reboot, pushing
toward 10 minutes in some instances just to get up and running.
And that's really what Pillars of
Eternity is, a nostalgic punch to the face, the direct result of a Kickstarter page that was unashamedly marketing itself
toward people looking for a familiar yet brilliant experience.
Perhaps the purest distillation of the game's tendencies, multiplayer entirely discards any pretext
toward historical recreation, gleefully offering a Sisyphean gladiatorial arena in which the Allies and Axis are forever fighting, returning to the same war - torn European city blocks and shell - burned patches of forest for
eternity.