“Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.” PeopleThinkingHumansKindProblemDreamCoursesHeavenRaceDoubtSkyDyingAwfulHuman RaceNo DoubtAfterlifePie Author:N. T. Wright
“The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.” CountryDiesDoubtDyingMy FamilyNo DoubtThings Worth Dying For Author:Rick Warren
“You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.” PeopleIfsKnowsWould BeWatchesDoubtTroubleDyingClockBatteries Author:Ben Katchor
“On the Cross the Jesus of the Four Gospels, who was God, cried out My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? God cannot forsake himself, Jesus was God himself. Yet God forsook Jesus, and the latter cried out to know why he was forsaken. Any able divine will explain that of course he knew, and that he was not forsaken. The explanation renders it difficult to believe the dying cry, and the passage becomes one of the mysteries of the holy Christian religion, which, unless a man rightly believe, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.” KnowsMenBelieveAbleChristianCoursesJesusDifficultDoubtFourMysteryAtheismDyingCryDivineHolyCrossesPositive AtheismExplanationLatterPassagesCriedForsakeForsakenDivine Will Book:Why do Men Starve? Who Was Jesus Christ? Poverty: Its Effects on the Political Condition of the People and other Essays Source: Why do Men Starve? Who Was Jesus Christ? Poverty: Its Effects on the Political Condition of the People and other Essays
“In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns. . . . And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing.” LoveDoubtDyingNo DoubtAttics Author:Tim O'Brien
“Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.” SufferingDoubtImpossibleDyingProjectsAssumingNo DoubtSuffering And Death Author:Thomas Ligotti