Quotes about Sting

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

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.

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

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.