Joseph Butler Quotes

Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.

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

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

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.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

It's always good to have fears for your eternal soul.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

I value the Lord more than I value my career, because at the end of the day, when we die, we face him. We're going to wish that we did more on this earth for him. And so I want to make sure that I'm doing everything to glorify him.

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

Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.

In Judaism or Christianity and so forth, you invent rules that don't exist anywhere except in your imagination. You spend your life trying to gain points and to avoid all kinds of things that detract from your points. And if by the time you die you gather enough points, then you pass on to the next level, in Heaven.

The most important is to prepare you for eternity.

Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.

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.

If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus.An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.

What Jesus will do with you is determined on what you will do with him.

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life." My friend, that is worth more than all the feeling you can have in a life-time.