Billy Graham Quotes

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

I believe in life after death.

[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

I actually do believe in life after death.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

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

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

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

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.