Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

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.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary.

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

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

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

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.

The fact that there’s a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers.

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

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?

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

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.