John Burnside Quotes

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.

For the believing Christian, death is no big deal….For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence. What a horrible act!

Scientologists view children as spiritual beings.

I believe in life after death.

As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

I believe in God and immortality.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.