Quotes about Death
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
- Billy Graham
Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.
- Charles Spurgeon
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.
- DH Lawrence
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
- Ray Comfort
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
- John Updike
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
- Abraham Lincoln
The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.
- Alistair Begg
Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.
- Alistair Begg
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.
- Samuel Rutherford
Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
- Joseph Addison