Sri Aurobindo Quotes

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I've lost someone or I've seen a sick child, I've had conversations with Him in which I've had to ask, 'How can that be right?'

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

It is axiomatic that the Cross we get is the one we most dislike: we would choose any other. But it is equally true that the Cross which is ours is the one Christ wants us to bear.

God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.

The way of the Cross is not easy, yet it is the tuneful, the rhythmic, the beautiful, the lovely way.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

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.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.