Quotes about Afterlife
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
- Graham Greene
The resurrection and its victory over death brought a decisive new word to the vocabulary of pain and suffering: temporary. Jesus Christ holds out the startling promise of an afterlife without pain. Whatever anguish we feel now will not last.
- Philip Yancey
Heaven was such a wonderful place, why did everybody cry whenever someone went there?
- Deborah Raney
Not lost, but gone before.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where Will You Spend Eternity? And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27 KJV) I want to know, my friend Where will your life now end? Where will you spend eternity? Will it be Heaven or Hell? No one can run, or hide So now, my friend, you must decide Where will you spend eternity? Heaven or Hell?
- John Bunyan
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
- Elbert Hubbard
You die and die and then you are beyond death.
- CS Lewis
One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.
- John Donne
There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.
- Robert Frost
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
- CS Lewis
Alinsky's contempt for traditional morality can also be seen in the figure to whom he dedicated his book Rules for Radicals. That figure is the devil. Alinsky calls Lucifer "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom." He goes on to say, "If there's an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly go to hell. Hell would be heaven for me."
- Dinesh D'Souza
What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?
- Donald Miller