John Shelby Spong Quotes

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

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

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

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

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

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

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.

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.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.