Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

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.

They may have to wait until the next life to see me resign

Death is a reality, and one day I'm not going to be here anymore, and whatever's next might not be that bad either.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

A world without hope, but no despair

Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.