Matthew Henry Quotes

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

Certainly, we all wonder what is beyond, and when you lose a loved one, I think part of the grieving process includes where that person might have gone or if you'll ever see them again. I think it forces you to look up to the sky, to the cosmos.

When my father died of cancer in 1991, he left me with the assurance that he was headed to a better place. He used to always tell me that I was getting the raw end of the deal because I had to stick around here.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home or school, and I knew that everyone I loved was together, enormously happy, and watching over me and awaiting my coming to this extraordinary place.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

Even death has a heart.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

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

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.