Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

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

Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'

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.

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

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 also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

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

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

The quality of debate is pretty high—and it is, I think, good evidence of life after death.

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

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.

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

And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I believe in God and immortality.

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

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