William Wilberforce Quotes

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

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

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

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

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

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

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

Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.

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.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.

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

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

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.

The fact is you cannot talk about the love of God. The love of God has no meaning whatsoever unless you understand the judgment of God that all of us deserve.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

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

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.