Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes

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

The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

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

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

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.

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

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.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

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.

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

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.

I believe in life after death.

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

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

I actually do believe in life after death.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

She died praying that she might die.

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

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.

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

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.