John Ruskin Quotes

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

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

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

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.

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.