Joshua Chamberlain Quotes

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

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

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

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

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.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

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

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

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.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

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.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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