Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.

There is no death. The body withers but the spirit still lives.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.