Death and the Afterlife

• "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone arises from the dead"
• "in my father's house are many rooms. I am going there to prepare a place for you"
• "Jesus answered him "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise""
• "We would literally have all the time in the world and so would be able to do all of the things we ever wanted to do (and achieve them)" - Bernard Williams
• "every target that we set ourselves would be achieved - whatever we wanted to do we would be able to do and perhaps the excitement would disappear" - Bernard Williams
• "Heaven becomes Hell" - Bernard Williams
• "We would never be bored or suffer" - Rowan Williams
• "Hell is a state to which the wicked are condemned, and in which they are deprived of the sight of God for all eternity, and are in dreadful torments" - Pope Pius X
• "weeping and gnashing of teeth"
• "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice the magic arts, the idolators, and all liars - they will be consigned to the firey lake of burning sulfur"
• "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, i was in prison and you came to visit me"
• "Whatever you do to the least of my brothers and sisters of mine you do to me"
• "Depart from me, you who are cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels"
• "Those God foreknew he predestined to be confirmed to the likeness of his son... And those who he predestined, he also called; those he called he also justified; those he justified he glorified"
• "the potter has authority over the clay from the same lump to make one vessel for noble causes and another for common use" - St Augustine
• "Eternal life is ordained for some and eternal damnation for others. Everyman therefore being created for one or other of these ends... Is predestined to life or death" - John Calvin
• "Not all humans are created with the same destiny"