Quotes About Afterlife

I can't imagine that anything like the Christian image of hell actually exists. But lately I've been wondering about the ancient Greenlandic realm of the dead. If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

“Whom shall I bring up for you?” the woman asked. “Bring up Samuel,” he replied.

After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.

Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.

The same thing happened to the second and third brothers, down to the seventh.

In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For all of them were married to her.”

In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.