Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.

I want to go on living even after death!

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

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

There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.

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

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.