Helen Thomas Quotes

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.

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

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

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

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

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

I don't believe in the afterlife.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I'm a big fan of talking about God. Whether people believe in God or not, that's so fascinating. Or where you go when you die is fascinating.

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.

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

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

I absolutely believe in Heaven and Hell. They're just like what the Bible says they are.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

I was at the Wal-Mart, which is where I think everybody goes eventually. If they die without Christ.