Monica Johnson Quotes

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

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

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

All salvation is temporary

Life is once. Forever.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

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.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?