Thomas Brooks Quotes

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

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

I believe in God and immortality.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

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.

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.

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.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

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

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

Martyrs don’t have to wait for the judgment day. They go straight to heaven.

And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

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

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

I do know I'm going to heaven. I have read all of the Scriptures and the passages that define paradise and things like that. To me, what matters is I'm going to be with Jesus and I'm going to be in his presence. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. At that point, you know some to judgment, some to salvation.