Quotes about Sting

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

It is far too easy for Protestants to take the sting from Jesus' words by thinking what Jesus was really saying was not that his followers had to do more, but that they were to trust in the righteousness of Christ while the scribes and Pharisees were trusting in themselves. Or to say the Pharisees were externally righteous only. For this view, "surpasses" is really about kind of righteousness and not degree.

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9).

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

So it shall be with thee when thou dost leave this world.  This did sweetly revive my spirit, and help me to hope in God; which when I had with comfort mused on a while, that word fell with great weight upon my mind, O death, where is thy sting?  O grave, where is thy victory?  1 Cor. xv. 55.  At this I became both well in body and mind at once, for my sickness did presently vanish, and I walked comfortably in my work for God again.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.