George MacDonald Quotes

I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Life is short, and, once somebody is gone, they're gone.

You never find peace in this realm, but it's okay, because when my dad went to the other side, he looks after me now better than he did in life. He is with me all the time.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time.

I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in!

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.