Seth Shostak Quotes

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

I sing about heaven and hell, angels and demons.

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

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.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

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.

The atheist has no hope.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

For the believing Christian, death is no big deal….For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence. What a horrible act!

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.

The Bible is full of wealth, miracles, goodness and badness.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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