Barbara Walters 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.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

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

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

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.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

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.

The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

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

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

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

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

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.