Jay Parini Quotes

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

I believe in life after death.

I actually do believe in life after death.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.

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.

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.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

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

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

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

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

I don't believe in death.