Alice Walker Quotes

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

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.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

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.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

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.'

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

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.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

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.

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

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

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

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

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

I believe in life after death.

Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.

I actually do believe in life after death.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

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