Thomas Monaghan Quotes

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist therein.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

My mission in life is to get to heaven, so the people I have in my inner circle I don't allow to do the 'rule breaking' that we know as Christians we can't.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.