“live as temporal, serve as eternal”

“If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.”

“If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present." L. Wittgenstein, Philosopher”

“The world promises things that are temporal and small, and it is served with great eagerness. I (Christ) promise things that are great and eternal, and the hearts of mortals are slow to stir.”

“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”

“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit -not a part of the world.[...]If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.”