Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass through the door you reach another life - deeper, eternal, without death, deathless. So from so-called life, which is really nothing but dying, one has to pass through the door of death; only then does one achieve a life that is really existential and active - without death in it.

There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.