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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.
Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
 If I stoop
 Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,
  It is but for a time; I read more 
 If I stoop
 Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud,
  It is but for a time; I press God's lamp
   Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late
    Will pierce the gloom; I shall emerge one day. 
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope
 It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
 Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
  This longing read more 
 It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!--
 Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
  This longing after immortality?
   Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
    O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
     Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
      'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
       'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
        And intimates eternity to man. 
 But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
 No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, read more 
 But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
 No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love;
  The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain
   Make Good
    Together there we can begin again
     In babyhood. 
The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.