Walter Raleigh Quotes

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.

Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

I believe in life after death.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

I actually do believe in life after death.

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

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

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