Boris Pasternak Quotes

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.