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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.
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.
If there were no future life, our souls would not thirst for it.
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.
It is the divinity that stirs within us. This heaven itself that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
I feel my immortality oversweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, an like the eternal thunders of the deep, peal to my ears this truth “Thou livest forever.”
A voice within us speaks that startling word, “Man, thou shalt 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.
There is none but fears a future state; and when the most obdurate swear they do not, their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
Dryden.
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.
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.
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.
We believe that we shall know each other’s forms hereafter, and, in the bright fields of he better land, shall call the lost dead to us.
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?
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.
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
What a world were this; how unendurable its weight, if they whom death had sundered did not meet again?
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
Cicero.
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.
Addison.
If there were no future life, our souls would not thirst for it.
Richter.
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.
Bulwer.
It is the divinity that stirs within us. This heaven itself that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
Addison.
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
Landor.
I feel my immortality oversweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, an like the eternal thunders of the deep, peal to my ears this truth “Thou livest forever.”
Byron.
A voice within us speaks that startling word, “Man, thou shalt 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.
Dana.
There is none but fears a future state; and when the most obdurate swear they do not, their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
Dryden.
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.
Fichte.
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.
E.H. Chapin.
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.
O. Dewey.
We believe that we shall know each other’s forms hereafter, and, in the bright fields of he better land, shall call the lost dead to us.
N.P. Willis.
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?
Mad. De Stael.
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.
Hare.
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
J.P. Senn.
What a world were this; how unendurable its weight, if they whom death had sundered did not meet again?
Southey.
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
Emmons.
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