April 9

The love of goodness and the belief in immortality are inseparable.

1

No one can say that he knows that there is a future life. Our conviction in this is based not on a logical but on a moral veracity, and therefore I cannot say for certain that God and my immortality exist, but I can say that I am morally convinced that God exists and that my self is immortal. This means that my faith in God and in another world is so tied to my nature that this faith cannot be separated from me.

— Kant

2

The more spiritual our life becomes, the more we believe in immortality. As our nature moves away from animal crudeness, its doubts also disappear. The future is unveiled, darkness dissipates, and we can already feel our immorality here.

— After Martineau

3

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be something large and generous, and in the great style of his works. The future must be up to the style of our faculties—of memory, of hope, of imagination, of reason.

— Emerson

4

There is nothing frightening about death; death appears frightening only insofar as we stray in this life from the eternal law.

5

In this world we are like a child who has entered a room where a scientist is giving a speech about his field. The child had not heard the beginning and leaves before the end. He hears something, but does not understand what he has heard. God’s great speech had begun many ages before we started our education, and will continue even when we turn to dust. We have heard only a part of it, and most of what we have heard we did not understand. But even though our understanding is meager and vague, we have nevertheless grasped something great and solemn.

— David Thomas

6

The one who truly loves God will not strive to make God love him. His own love for God is enough for him.

— Spinoza

The one who loves goodness (God) with the whole of his being cannot doubt his immortality.