Catherine McAuley Quotes

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.