As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.