Rick Bass Quotes

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purpose of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

The strong argument for Heaven as a place centers in and clusters about Jesus. The man Jesus, bearing a man's form, the body He wore on earth, has a place assigned Him - a high place.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

I look through the grave into heaven.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples." He nice, the Jesus.

What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?