Charles Spurgeon Quotes

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

All that seems earth is hell or 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.

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.

The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to 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.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

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

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

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.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.