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.
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.
Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in oneβs neighbor, in the existence of oneβs neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.
It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.
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