Charles Spurgeon Quotes

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

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.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.