Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God.

Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.

I am a spiritual person. I'm a Catholic. I treat my patients, the dead patients, as live patients. I believe there is life after death. And I talk to my patients. I talk to them, not loudly but quietly in my heart when I look at them. Before I do an autopsy, I must have a visual contact with the face.

Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.