Mark Hopkins Quotes

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

I don't want revival...I WANT CHRIST! And if we have Christ, there will be a revival.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

Keep eternity before the children.

Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.