Allen Tate Quotes

I'm spiritual, yes, but I don't think about Judgment Day. I don't think about an angry God.

I am not a person of faith. I'm a Catholic. I was brought up Catholic, but I'm not a church-going sort of girl. I'm very spiritual. I pray every night. I believe in Heaven and Hell, but I'm not a person that goes to church, like, every Sunday.

Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.

Heaven is the presence of God.

All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.

Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind: Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train, Of mortal virtues, at the door remain. Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.

I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves. It’s kind of sad. Okay you don’t think you’ll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

I absolutely believe in Heaven and Hell. They're just like what the Bible says they are.

And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.

I'm a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you what you should believe. You know, you have to believe what I believe, and I don't believe that.

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.