Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

Next, they'll say, "Do you want to go to heaven?" Have you ever had anybody say, "No, I'd rather go to hell." My friend, understand this, everyone wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.

I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

People invent gods to explain their suffering.

Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews--Micah, Isaiah, and the rest--who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.

And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

May the God of your choice bless you.