Archibald Alexander Quotes

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.

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.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

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

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

The words 'come unto Christ' are an invitation. It is the most important invitation you could ever offer to another person. It is the most important invitation anyone could accept.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

No one is guaranteed their next moment, or their next breath; yet, humanity has a habit of thinking of its existence on the earth as eternal. Those who are rooted and grounded in Christ know that life is just a vapor.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.

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.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

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

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.

It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel.

I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

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

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.

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.