Quotes about Death

There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

We try to fend off this world we yearn for where men live together as brothers because there is something in each of us that wants to live not for his brother but for himself. We fend it off because we know in our terrible wisdom that the price we must pay for it is death, the death of self and all the values of self, the death that must take place before the life can come.