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These considerations, though they may have no influence on the multitude, ought to sink into the minds of those who are their abettors, and who, if they escape punishment here, must know that these several mischiefs will be one day laid to their charge.: Joseph Addison

Imprint upon their minds, by proper arguments and reflections, a lively persuasion of the certainty of a future state.: Francis Atterbury

It is equally necessary that there should be a future state to vindicate the justice of God, and solve the present irregularities of Providence, whether the best men be oftentimes only, or always, the most miserable.: Francis Atterbury

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.: Francis Atterbury

Form the judgment about the worth or emptiness of things here, according as they are or are not of use in relation to what is to come hereafter.: Francis Atterbury

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any farther than it indisposes us for the enjoyments of another.: Francis Atterbury

They have no uneasy presages of a future reckoning, wherein the pleasures they now taste must be accounted for; and may perhaps be outweighed by the pains which shall then lay hold upon them.: Francis Atterbury

We carry the image of God in us,—a rational and immortal soul, and though we be now miserable and feeble, yet we aspire after eternal happiness, and finally expect a great exaltation of all our natural powers.: Richard Bentley

There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root and is most discoverable in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.: Cicero

To take away rewards and punishments is only pleasing to a man who resolves not to live morally.: John Dryden

Some he punished exemplarily in this world, that we might from thence have a taste or glimpse of his future justice.: George Hakewill

The everlasting life, both of body and soul, in that future state, whether in bliss or woe, hath been added.: Henry Hammond

Here joys that endure forever, fresh and in vigour, are opposed to satisfactions that are attended with satiety and surfeits and flatten in the very tasting.: Roger L’Estrange

Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size that are more remote; and so it is with pleasure and pain: the present is apt to carry it, and those at a distance have the disadvantage in the comparison.: John Locke

To him who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, the measures of good and evil are mightily changed.: John Locke

Look not mournfully into the past, — it comes not back again; wisely improve the present, — it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Trust no future howe’er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living present! Heart within the God o’erhead!: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whatever improvement we make in ourselves, we are thereby sure to meliorate our future condition.: William Paley

We are but curious impertinents in the case of futurity.: Alexander Pope

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and uncertain haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.: Alexander Pope

God’s justice in the one, and his goodness in the other, is exercised for evermore, as the everlasting subjects of his reward and punishment.: Sir Walter Raleigh

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depends upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance,—and so quit a certainty for an uncertainty.: Seneca

We are led to the belief of a future state, not only by the weaknesses, by the hopes and fears of human nature, but by the noblest and best principles which belong to it, by the love of virtue, and by the abhorrence of vice and injustice.: Adam Smith

That religion, teaching a future state of souls, is a probability, and that its contrary cannot, with equal probability, be proved, we have evinced.: Robert South

The voice of God himself speaks in the heart of men, whether they understand it or no; and by secret intimations gives the sinner a foretaste of that direful cup which he is like to drink more deeply of hereafter.: Robert South

The smallest accident intervening often produces such changes that a wise man is just as much in doubt of events as the most ignorant and unexperienced.: Jonathan Swift

The fear of punishment in this life will preserve men from few vices, since some of the blackest often prove the surest steps to favour; such as ingratitude, hypocrisy, treachery, and subornation.: Jonathan Swift

The spirit of manifestation will but upbraid you in the shame and horror of a sad eternity, if you have not the spirit of absignation.: Jeremy Taylor

Enjoy the present, whatsoever it be, and be not solicitous about the future.: Jeremy Taylor

The doctrine of the gospel proposes to men such glorious rewards and such terrible punishments as no religion ever did, and gives us far greater assurance of their reality and certainty than ever the world had.: John Tillotson

God hath in the Scripture suspended the promise of eternal life upon this condition, that without obedience and holiness of life no man shall ever see the Lord.: John Tillotson

The great encouragement is the assurance of a future reward, the firm persuasion thereof is enough to raise us above anything in this world.: John Tillotson

It concerns every man that would not trifle away his soul, and fool himself into irrecoverable misery, with the greatest seriousness to inquire into these matters.: John Tillotson

What poor man would not carry a great burthen of gold to be made a rich man forever?: John Tillotson

If he have no comfortable expectations of another life to sustain him under the evils in this world, he is of all creatures the most miserable.: John Tillotson

It is not much that the good man ventures: after this life, if there be no God, he is as well as the bad; but if there be a God, is infinitely better; even as much as unspeakable and eternal happiness is better than extreme and endless misery.: John Tillotson

This is the natural fruit of sin, and the present revenge which it takes upon sinners, besides that fearful punishment which shall be inflicted on them in another life.: John Tillotson

If it so fall out that thou art miserable forever, thou hast no reason to be surprised as if some unexpected thing had happened.: John Tillotson

In the other world there is no consideration that will sting our consciences more cruelly than this, that we did wickedly when we knew to have done better; and chose to make ourselves miserable, when we understood the way to have been happy.: John Tillotson

To persevere in any evil course makes you unhappy in this life, and will certainly throw you into everlasting torments in the next.: William Wake

Planters of trees ought to encourage themselves by considering all future time as present; indeed, such consideration would be a useful principle to all men in their conduct of life, as it respects both this world and the next.: Bishop Richard Watson

Ask our rhapsodist, If you have nothing but the excellence and loveliness of virtue to preach, and no future rewards or punishments, how many vicious wretches will you ever reclaim?: Dr. Isaac Watts

A present good may reasonably be parted with upon a probable expectation of a future good which is more excellent.: Bishop John Wilkins

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