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1. When, therefore, you see as in a furnace our flesh flowing away to corruption, dwell not on that sight, but wait for the recasting.
2. They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
3. It has always seemed to me a major tragedy that so many people go through life haunted by the fear of death--only to find when it comes that it's as natural as life itself. For very few are afraid to die when they get to the very end. In all my experience only one seemed to feel any terror--a woman who had done her sister a wrong which it was too late to right. Something strange and beautiful happens to men and women when they come to the end of the road. All fear, all horror disappears. I have often watched a look of happy wonder dawn in their eyes when they realized this was true. It is all part of the goodness of nature and, I believe, of the illimitable goodness of God. ~~~A Veteran Nurse~~~
4. The Christian's conquest of death is absolute. The result is final. He has vanquished the last enemy, and has no more battles to fight.
5. Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
6. So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our head back on the bosom of Christ and quietly fall asleep.
7. "The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."
8. "The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
9. "It is when a man has no one to love him that he commits suicide. So long as he has friends, those who love him and whom he loves, he will live, because to live is to love. Be it but the love of a dog, it will keep him in life; but let that go and he has no contact with life, no reason to live. He dies by his own hand."
10. "You ask for a practical direction to teach you to die well....Detach your souls from everything that you love, separate from God. This, in a few words, is the science of dying."
11. "Whomsoever the last day of his own life finds unprepared, this last day will find unprepared also."
12. "There is nothing more certain than death; nothing more uncertain than the time of dying. I will therefore be prepared for that at all times which may come at any time, must come at one time or another. I shall not hasten my death by being still ready, but sweeten it. It makes me not die the sooner, but the better."
13. "Nothing can be so unworthy of a well-composed soul as to pass away life in bickerings and litigations, in snarling and scuffling with every one around us."
14. "To all who find their days declining, to all upon whom age is creeping with its infirmities, to all whose strength seems steadily to ebb....God seems to take our last things, and as it were, pack them up for our journey. These are tokens that you are approaching land. They are signs that the troubles of the sea are almost over."
15. "When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love."
16. "Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited."
17. "They that die in their sins, shall rise in their sins."
18. "When I think of death as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing, one day, some hard-fought and well-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of victory in my ear. That would be worth dying for, and more, it would be worth having lived for."
19. "Briars and thistles wither not so soon as lilies and roses. They may be taken out of the world, of whom the world is not worthy; and they remain behind, who are not worthy to live in the world."
20. "My heart tells me that if I have the happiness of being employed in this mission, I will go and not return; but I shall be happy if the Lord will complete the sacrifice where He has begun it, and make the little blood I have shed in that land, the earnest of what I would give."
21. "It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth."
22. "For thirty years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize." [his epitaph]
23. "The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author." [self-written epitaph]
24. "I'm so glad Elisabeth is with the Lord, and not in that box." [Wife of R. A. Torrey on death of 12 yr. old daughter]
25. "I knew I was in danger but was not depressed. I've read pretty well everything."
26. "Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ."
27. "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
28. "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
29. "...No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed."
30. "Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."
31. "It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there."
32. "He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave."
33. "I must not think it strange if God takes in youth those whom I would have kept on earth until they were older. God is peopling eternity, and I must not restrict Him to old men and women."
34. "To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward."
35. "'Who gathered this flower?' The gardener answered, 'The Master.' And his fellow servant held his peace." (on an epitaph)
36. "Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes."
37. "Lord, if any have to die this day, let it be me, for I am ready."
38. "At the place of execution, he again said a short prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God." [Prison doctor witness to Bonhoeffer's death]
39. "Die: To stop sinning suddenly."
40. "On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans, on that, children; on this side, captives, on that, freemen."
41. "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."
42. "They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them."
43. "We want to reach the kingdom of God, but we don't want to travel by way of death. And yet there stands Necessity saying: 'This way, please.' Do not hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you."
44. "Many who plan to seek God at the eleventh hour die at 10:30."
45. "I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die." (on his deathbed to stepson)
46. "I cannot express the anguish I feel at the death of our sweet Annie....But God, in this, as in all things, has mingled mercy with the blow, in selecting that one best prepared to leave us." (letter to his wife)
47. "Do not grieve for the brave dead. Sorrow for those who are left behind---friends, relatives and families. The former are at rest. The latter must suffer."
