David Sedaris Quotes

The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

I believe in life after death.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

Jesus Chris was more than man.

We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And then we die. ... And dead we would remain but for one Man and His mission, even Jesus of Nazareth. ... With all my heart and the fervency of my soul, I lift up my voice in testimony as a special witness and declare that God does live. Jesus is His Son, the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh. He is our Redeemer; He is our Mediator with the Father. He it was who died on the cross to atone for our sins. He became the firstfruits of the Resurrection. Because He died, all shall live again.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

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.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Death does not exist.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

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.