Quotes about Transition

Break any ties—good or bad, emotional or spiritual—with any former relationships. You can't move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.

Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so I get sports, and I get the sports atmosphere, the feeling around other athletes, but I never played football.

Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It's not the destination, but the trip that they dread.

The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority.

Some day our journey through this life will be over and we will embark on another journey—one that will last forever.

Death is not the end of the road—it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.

When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.

Death is not the end of life; it is only the gateway to eternity.

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.