C. S. Lewis Quotes

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

I actually do believe in life after death.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts.

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

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

I believe in life after death.

Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

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

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

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.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.