Frederick William Robertson Quotes

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.

If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

I once wrote a song called 'No Laughing in Heaven,' which was about not wanting to go to Heaven due to the company I'd be keeping, and with a few exceptions, the Hall of Fame is pretty much the same thing.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are petty.

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

The resurrection gives you a sense of what God wants to do for the whole world.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.