Hereafter Quotes - Page 9

• All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

  Tacitus

  Example, Fields, Precedent

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• The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.

  Max Muller

  Country, Fate, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, 1902.

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• Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

  George Washington

  Men, Luxury, Too Late

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1782). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.486

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• He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

  John Bunyan

  Looks, Wheat, Sin

  1684 The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.2.

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• Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Blessed, Sunset, Home

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Housman Thomas (1860). “The Song of Hiawatha ... Illustrated by John Gilbert”, p.211

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• I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

  George Rogers Clark

  Honor, Suffering, Half

  "Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio, 1778 - 1783, and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark" by William Hayden English, vol. 2, (p. 789), 1896.

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• All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Afterlife, Would Be, Treatment

  Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, War

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.269, Penguin

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• Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.

  Michael Shermer

  Meaningful, Atheist, Live Life

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• I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Would Be, Bears

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1884). “John Ploughman's Talk and Pictures; Or Plain Advice for Plain People: In One Volume”

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• God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  God, Vices, Rewards

  Benjamin Franklin (1869). “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.233

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• No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

  William Cowper

  Cat, Loss, Reflection

  "The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the Author".

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• No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,
  That round and round still turns with onward might,
  Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night
  Of an unknown hereafter.

  Charles Cowden Clarke

  Time, Night, Might

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• The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Mean, Son, Should

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 490, 2005.

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• We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

  Catherine Doherty

  Waiting, Christ

  "Love One Another". Book by Catherine Doherty, 2002.

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• I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

  Robert E. Howard

  No Fear, Hell, Torture

  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 1925.

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• All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Breathing, Spirit

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.227

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• Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and 'randomly' pull me aside for 'special treatment'. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord's angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Prayer, Islamic, Angel

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• But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

  Robert Blair

  Men, Hands, Speaks Out

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• The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Pain, Self

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

  Jean Kerr

  Depressing, Mistake, Law

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Army, May, Prosperity

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1853). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”, p.83

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• Our duty as Latter-day Saints is to prepare ourselves, this earth, and its inhabitants for the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Being prepared and being strong as the gospel teaches ensure happiness here and hereafter and make this 'grand millennial mission' possible.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Strong, Jesus, Millennials

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• It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Thinking, May

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• People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a person describes the hereafter, it is just like wanting to weigh the soul or photograph the spirit. I personally think that you must be able to realize yourself what the hereafter is. You must not depend upon my words.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, People, Soul

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