Posts tagged eternity

What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

Not to be afraid of an eternity of joy.

“It is absurd indeed that Christians should be called the enemies of life because they wish to live forever; it is more absurd still to call the old comic writers dull because they wished their unchanging characters to last forever.

Both popular religion with its endless joys, and the old comic story, with its endless jokes, have in our time faded together.


We are too weak to desire that undying vigor.

We believe you can have too much of a good thing - a blasphemous belief, which at one blow wrecks all the heavens that men have hoped for.


The grand old defiers of God were not afraid of an eternity of torment.

We have come to be afraid of an eternity of joy.”  G.K. Chesterton, Dickens, A Critical Study

…too weak to desire that undying vigor?

I have a GIVENNESS NOW not to be afraid of an eternity of joy.

What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

The making of death a thing of time, not of eternity.


“How marvelous the power of the cross; how great beyond all telling the glory of the passion; here is the judgment seat of the Lord, the condemnation of the world, the supremacy of Christ crucified.  

He did away with the everlasting character of death so as to make death a thing of time, not of eternity.” St. Leo the Great




…death died.


…time transformed.







The eschatological evidence of easter.


I have a GIVENNESS NOW to the making of death a thing of time, not of eternity.