Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

There was one theory put forth by a journalist recently. I have a lot of friends that have died prematurely and a lot of friends that have died of natural causes. I've lost a lot of people over the years. This journalist basically recommended to me that God keeps me around because I amuse him.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

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

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

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

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

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.

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

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.