The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
A man only has a soul to be won or lost.
I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.
The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.
Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.
Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.
Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.
And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.
Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.
I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul.
I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.
I am motivated by the fact that in the next 365 days, 136,000 Californians will die and most of them will go into an eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 2.4 million Americans will die; most of them will go into eternity without Christ. In the next 365 days, 74 million people in the world will go into eternity without Christ and without hope. I can't live with that.
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.
I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature.
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.
