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The Spirit & Eternal Life

31 Bible verses about eternal life, alongside passages from the Grail Message, the Buddha, the Tao Te Ching and Zoroastrian scripture: 55 passages in all, each with its source. Take the one that meets you where you are.

  • “He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”

    The Bible · Psalm 23:3 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Always bear in mind: Expressed according to our concepts, all that is spiritual is magnetic, and you also know that the stronger always overcomes what is weak through attraction, through absorption.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume I · 6. Silence · In the Light of Truth

  • “As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.”

    The Bible · Psalm 42:1 · tr. World English Bible

  • “My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.”

    The Bible · Psalm 62:1 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Not for nothing does the great Master exhort us: "Become like children!"”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume I · 1. What seek ye? · In the Light of Truth

  • “The LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.”

    The Bible · Psalm 121:7 · tr. World English Bible

  • “The brilliant chariots of kings are destroyed, the body also approaches destruction, but the virtue of good people never approaches destruction,--thus do the good say to the good.”

    Buddha · Dhammapada, verse 151 · tr. F. Max Müller

  • “Praise the LORD, my soul, and don't forget all his benefits.”

    The Bible · Psalm 103:2 · tr. World English Bible

  • “He who dies and yet does not perish, has longevity.”

    Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching, chapter 33 · tr. James Legge

  • “Recollect that your body will return to dust, but your soul, if rich in good works, will mount to immortality.”

    Zoroastrian Teachings · The Vision of Arda Viraf · as given in S. A. Kapadia, The Teachings of Zoroaster (1905)

  • “For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

    Paul · 2 Corinthians 4:18 · tr. World English Bible

  • “The word "childlike" is an expression which is in most cases wrongly applied by human beings in their careless and thoughtless manner of speaking.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume I · 10. Childlikeness · In the Light of Truth

  • “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts.”

    The Bible · Ecclesiastes 3:11 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.”

    The Bible · Psalm 90:2 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Observation of your thoughts and feelings will soon prove to you that all real life can in truth only be spiritual life, in which alone the origin and also the development lie.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume I · 6. Silence · In the Light of Truth

  • “The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

    Isaiah · Isaiah 40:8 · tr. World English Bible

  • “The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.”

    John · 1 John 2:17 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Become free in spirit, which means nothing else than let the spirit within you have its way!”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume I · 12. The first step · In the Light of Truth

  • “In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.”

    Jesus · John 14:2 · tr. World English Bible

  • “But the LORD's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him.”

    The Bible · Psalm 103:17 · tr. World English Bible

  • “And he who lives a hundred years, not seeing the immortal place, a life of one day is better if a man sees the immortal place.”

    Buddha · Dhammapada, verse 114 · tr. F. Max Müller

  • “The increasing luminosity of the spirit arises in turn from the purification and cleansing of the soul, if in the volition for the good it strives upwards.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume III · 45. Consider, what is of benefit to you! · In the Light of Truth

  • “Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies."”

    The Bible · John 11:25 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”

    The Bible · John 5:24 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Only that which is spirit bears within it from the very beginning onwards the power to make a free decision, and the resulting full responsibility.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume II · 42. The development of Creation · In the Light of Truth

  • “I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.”

    The Bible · John 10:28 · tr. World English Bible

  • “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

    Paul · Romans 6:23 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Heaven is long-enduring and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.”

    Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching, chapter 7 · tr. James Legge

  • “The righteous in heaven are undecaying and immortal, unalarmed, undistressed, and undisturbed.”

    Zoroastrian Teachings · Dina-i Mainog-i Khirad (The Spirit of Wisdom), chapter VII · tr. E. W. West

  • “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

    Paul · 1 Corinthians 15:55 · tr. World English Bible

  • “In the regions of light every human soul will also meet other souls with ethereal bodies homogeneous to its own, those of a like nature.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume II · 37. The regions of Light and Paradise · In the Light of Truth

  • “For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.”

    Paul · 2 Corinthians 5:1 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the LORD's house forever.”

    The Bible · Psalm 23:6 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Bear in mind that every life on earth is a short time of schooling, and that you yourselves do not cease to exist when you lay aside your physical body.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume I · 7. Ascent · In the Light of Truth

  • “Before long, alas! this body will lie on the earth, despised, without understanding, like a useless log.”

    Buddha · Dhammapada, verse 41 · tr. F. Max Müller

  • “LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.”

    The Bible · Psalm 39:4 · tr. World English Bible

  • “For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.”

    The Bible · Psalm 90:4 · tr. World English Bible

  • “One power streams through this world and the beyond, everything lives and works from this one life stream, and is thus quite inseparably linked.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume I · 5. Awake! · In the Light of Truth

  • “But you are the same. Your years will have no end.”

    The Bible · Psalm 102:27 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. The LORD is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.”

    The Bible · Psalm 145:13 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Only the works of the spirit from their very origin bear life within them, and with it permanence and stability.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume I · 19. Once upon a time …! · In the Light of Truth

  • “For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite."”

    Isaiah · Isaiah 57:15 · tr. World English Bible

  • “And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”

    The Bible · Ecclesiastes 12:7 · tr. World English Bible

  • “You are not made for the purpose of remaining only in the gross material sphere; you are to make use of it, but not to consider it your home.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume III · 38. Let there be Light! · In the Light of Truth

  • “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”

    The Bible · Matthew 24:35 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Possessed of the Tao, he endures long; and to the end of his bodily life, is exempt from all danger of decay.”

    Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching, chapter 16 · tr. James Legge

  • “Thou shouldst not become presumptuous through life; for death comes upon thee at last, and the perishable part falls to the ground.”

    Zoroastrian Teachings · Dina-i Mainog-i Khirad · as given in S. A. Kapadia, The Teachings of Zoroaster (1905)

  • “This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.”

    John · 1 John 2:25 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not if we enter into the clefts of the mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where death could not overcome (the mortal).”

    Buddha · Dhammapada, verse 128 · tr. F. Max Müller

  • “"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."”

    The Bible · Revelation 1:8 · tr. World English Bible

  • “As only that which is truly noble and of genuine goodwill is able to strive upwards free from all base desires, such a human soul will only encounter other souls of equal nobility.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume II · 37. The regions of Light and Paradise · In the Light of Truth

  • “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

    The Bible · Hebrews 13:8 · tr. World English Bible

  • “You, LORD, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.”

    The Bible · Lamentations 5:19 · tr. World English Bible

  • “Death and birth are so closely linked because one is the result of the other.”

    Abd-ru-shin · Volume II · 30. Death · In the Light of Truth

  • “For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.”

    The Bible · Psalm 48:14 · tr. World English Bible

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