David Green Quotes

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

She died praying that she might die.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

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

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

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.

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.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

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.

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

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.

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

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.

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.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.