Confucius Quotes

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.

Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it happen to us. It is really freedom, an entry into another, higher life. We must utilize this life in order to realize the life beyond this one. Beyond this earth garden is the infinite land wherein we meet those whom we have thought lost. Although we must not seek death, when it comes we should know that it is the final examination for a great reward.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

I think, when we start dealing with heaven or hell issues, what we really need to gravitate toward is that man is an eternal spirit. And if you believe that he is an eternal spirit then all it does, it abandons the body.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And white, set face-a little strip of sea To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.

I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.