Patricia Heaton Quotes

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

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

I'm accountable to my God, and I haven't done anything I'm embarrassed of.

Every time you have with your mouth said well of godliness, and yet gone on in wickedness; or every time you have condemned sin in others, and yet have not refrained it yourselves; I say, every such word and conclusion that hath passed out of thy mouth, sinner, it shall be as a witness against thee in the day of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.

Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.

Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the present to speak words of truth and judgment in advance of that final holding-to-account.

My Christian faith is my backbone

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

Whatever others around you think, don't you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.

I want to remain distinct and authentically Christian in whatever realm I'm in. That's really what my aim is, for people to see I truly treasure and value Jesus and His Word.

I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!

Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the light and intelligence communicated to them from their beneficent creator, whether it is much or little, by the same they in justice will be judged, and ... they are required to yield obedience and improve upon that and that only which is given, for man is not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do with their lives are far less likely to become enmeshed in problems that inevitably weaken society.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

The Book of Mormon is true, just what it purports to be, and for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.