Emmylou Harris Quotes

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.'

She died praying that she might die.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.

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

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

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

I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.

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

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.