Medgar Evers Quotes

Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken

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

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

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

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

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.