Maureen O'Hara Quotes

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

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

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

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.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

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.

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.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

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

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

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.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of 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.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.