Solomon Ibn Gabirol Quotes

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

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

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.

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

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

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

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

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

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

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

Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.