Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Quotes

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

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

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

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

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

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

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

I think that when you die, you continue to progress. You continue to grow in kind of an elevated state, but I don't think you sit there and wallow around and play the harp.

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been knocked from under it. There must be another world beside this swamp in which everything is dumped pell-mell. It's hard to imagine what it can be like, this heaven that men dream about.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

If Heaven is up, I'm going. I know I'm right in my heart. This world is not my home. This life will soon be gone, and, one day, I'll spread my wings, as an angel, and fly away.