Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

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

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

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

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

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

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

I believe in life after death.

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

I actually do believe in life after death.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

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.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

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.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

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