Theodore Parker Quotes

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

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

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

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

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

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.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

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!

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.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

Death does not exist.

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

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.