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.
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.
The end doesn't justify the means.
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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