Darrell

“The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while longer, making it possible for them still to praise him.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

“The doctrine of the bodily resurrection of the dead at the end of time originated about two centuries before the life of Jesus, and by his day it had become a common feature of Jewish thought. Later, at the hands of Christians, it came to be transformed into a teaching of post-mortem rewards and punishments, the ideas of heaven and hell.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
― Sir William Osler

“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”
― Plato