All that seems earth is hell or heaven.
Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can't prove it, I can't put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.
If someone dies as a child, they go to heaven. But, as an adult, he made a choice of accepting Christianity, so, that's not apostacy. If he was a Muslim as an adult, then changed, that would be apostacy.
The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Till 1782, I believed in the doctrine of Calvin: that is, that the majority of mankind were objects of divine condemnation and that their punishment would be everlasting. The 'Systeme de la Nature,' read about the beginning of that year, changed my opinion and made me a Deist.
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.
Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.
Ireland has remained a Catholic nation, and as such sets the eternal destiny of man high above the isms and idols of the day. Her people would accept no system that decried of imperiled that destiny. So long as that was their attitude none of the forms of state-worship now prevalent [elsewhere in the world] could flourish in their land.
This was the first major political broadcast on the new national radio station.
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.
All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.
I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.
One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.
Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.
The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.
Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?