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FUTURE STATe quotes
Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news? If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.
It is the divinity that stirs within us.—'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth.—There is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that now pass over before us like shadows, will stay in our presence forever.
I feel my immortality o'ersweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and like the eternal thunders of the deep, peal to my ears this truth—"Thou livest forever."
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery—into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence, and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
A voice within us speaks that startling word, "Man, thou shaft never die!"—Celestial voices hymn it to our souls; according harps, by angel fingers touched, do sound forth still the song of our great immortality.
The dead carry our thoughts to another and a nobler existence.—They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.
There's none but fears a future state; and when the most obdurate swear they do not, their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven.—Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
My mind can take no hold on the present world nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force toward a future and better state of being.
The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings: to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
If there were no future life, our souls would not thirst for it.
What a world were this; how unendurable its weight, if they whom death had sundered did not meet again?
Divine wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
We believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter, and, in the bright fields of the better land, shall call the lost dead to us.
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