William James Quotes

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

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.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

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

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

The quality of debate is pretty high—and it is, I think, good evidence of life after death.

If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

It is important for those of us who are Christian to remember that our physical lives don't last forever. Our souls will last an eternity, and thus we should place even more emphasis on the health of our souls than the health of our bodies.

I believe in God and immortality.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

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.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

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.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

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

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.