Janet Erskine Stuart Quotes

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

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.

The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at all a way of showing that there is indeed a heaven awaiting us after death. It is the decisive event demonstrating that God’s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven.

She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.