Jakob Bohme Quotes

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

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 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.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

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

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

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

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

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.

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.

We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

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.

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.