George Carlin Quotes

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

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 wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

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.

I just hope I'll live to 60, and then I'll turn to the Lord and say, 'I'm ready for you now. I got all the time in the world to start making it up to you now.'

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

She died praying that she might die.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.

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.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

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

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

I don't believe in an afterlife.