Mitch Albom Quotes

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.

I owe it all to Jesus.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'

When we are truly praying, then we can begin to see Christ in our neighbour; when we are really praying, we can begin to live for the Father.

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

She died praying that she might die.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?