Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

Saints need sinners.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.