I am sure that some of you who think yourselves very modern, nonchalant about death and what lies after it, may some day run abruptly into an experience which will shake you to the depths. Somebody whom you love, the most precious soul, it may be, you ever have loved, will die, and you will find that you cannot say that you are not interested, do not care, that it makes no difference to you what lies beyond death for that personality. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
No cogent reason remains for supposing the soul dies with the body. . . . We [scientists] find strong reasons for believing that man is of extraordinary importance in the cosmic scheme. . . . It takes a lifetime to build the character of a noble man. The exercise and discipline of youth, the struggles and failure of maturity, the loneliness and tranquility of age — these make the fire through which we must pass to bring out the pure gold of the soul. Having been thus perfected, what shall Nature do with him, annihilate him? What infinite waste! As long as there is in Heaven a God of love there must be for God’s children everlasting life! ~ Dr. Arthur H. Compton (1928 Nobel Prize winner in Physics)
