Albert J. Nock Quotes

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

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

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

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

Death is not the end; it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science - constant and eternal seeking.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

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

My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.