Studs Terkel Quotes

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'

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.

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.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

The atheist has no hope.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

The quality of debate is pretty high—and it is, I think, good evidence of life after death.

My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.

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

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

I believe in God and immortality.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

I believe that all men and women will be saved.

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

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.