“If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Many people profess a belief in the existence of a spiritual realm, often aligning with their religious training or background. (Recent surveys… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
“In life one of Midnight’s favourite movies had been It’s a Wonderful Life, a touching story where a man called George Bailey… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
“Moreover, most faiths turned death into the main source of meaning in life. Try to imagine Islam, Christianity or the ancient Egyptian… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“In religious thought, a person may ride a horse into the sky (Mohammed), ascend to heaven in a chariot of fire (Elijah),… — Scott Atran Copy Share Image
“The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Riding high and above the waves on extemporaneous notions of an afterlife, Michael brought one foot forward and let it dangle over… — Matthew Chase Stroud Copy Share Image
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Well, I think life is precious because you can't watch it again. I mean, you can believe in an afterlife if that… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
“I am not dead. Death does not exist. I am alive! That is the purpose of this tale, to let everyone know… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
“My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines:… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil… — John Green Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of love.… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conversation God and I in space alone . . . and nobody else in view . . . And where are all… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Gehinom, or Gehenna, passed into use as a metaphoric designation for the place of punishment in the hereafter. According to a Talmudic… — Rabbi Ron Isaacs Copy Share Image
“The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my arm, the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“First, I have culled evidence that physical death is not the end of the road for any of us. I know this… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
“There are two missions we are obligated to carry out during our life journey. The first, is to seek Truth throughout our… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I think we’re already dead, dude. Not everyone, just Deckers. The whole Death-Cast thing seems too fantasy to be true. Knowing when… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“If we do survive death, then the next world is veiled from us for a purpose. Regardless of our endless conjecture, each… — J.L. Bryan Copy Share Image
The religious fanatic who practices terrorism cannot be reasoned with, because there is nothing you can threaten him with, and no alternative… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“There is a common response from people when they hear that in the absence of evidence to convince me otherwise I don’t… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
“She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord." "Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“for the writers of the Jewish Scriptures, details concerning the afterlife were murky. Solomon wrote that “the living know that they will… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is the product of electrochemical signalling in the neurons of your brain. So when the brain stops functioning fully, your consciousness,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
