I still can't watch the funeral. However, they appear in all my scripts and films, because the question of life and death affected my consciousness when I was still a child and left a mark on all my works.
A completely dead human soul, deprived of its natural work, is like muddy and stinking water, confined in a tight space.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
All wealth, all glory – it is all vanity vanity; and the saber, and the mace with a bundle, and the ermine cuirae will one day lie beside the dead bones.
In your love of life… I see the ordinary fear of death.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
We must be very careful not to mix in our good works at all as the ground of salvation. We are not forgiven because of Christ’s death and our good works, we are forgiven solely because of Christ’s death. 1/2
—R. A. Torrey
Own thyself guilty of eternal death; and renounce all hope of ever being able to save thyself. Be it all thy hope, to be washed in His blood, and purified by His Spirit, who Himself bore all thy sins in His own body upon the tree.
—John Wesley
Christianity is no less than the real, supreme work of the Triune God, in which the Father reconciles his created but fallen world through the death of his Son and re-creates it through his Spirit into the kingdom of God.
—Herman Bavinck
Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).
—Herman Bavinck
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
When He shouted on the cross, “It is finished!” it was the shout of a conqueror. He had overcome every enemy. He had met sin and death. He had met every foe that you and I have got to meet, and had come off victor.
—D. L. Moody
There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
While your sins are as deep as the ocean, the atonement that swallows them up is as deep as eternity, and on the ground of Christ’s atoning death there is pardon to-night for the vilest sinner in Bingley Hall, for the vilest sinner on the face of this earth.
—R. A. Torrey
Yes, thank God, he has conquered Death and the grave; and you can shout now, “O grave, where is thy victory!” He went down into the grave and conquered it, and came up out of it; and now he says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.”
—D. L. Moody
Works of art should be composed in memory of the dead and in the name of the unborn.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
We can become famous only through death.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
“Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried”-that is history. “He loved me and gave Himself for me”-that is doctrine.
—J. Gresham Machen
All men, according to Paul, are dead in sin. Salvation, then, can come only by a new creation.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Where there is no love there will be no life; living lambs are not to be fed by dead men.”
If he will bring to our remembrance the promises of Christ for our consolation, neither Satan nor man, sin nor world, nor death, shall interrupt our comfort.
—John Owen
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Yes, thank God, he has conquered Death and the grave; and you can shout now, “O grave, where is thy victory!” He went down into the grave and conquered it, and came up out of it; and now he says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.”
—D. L. Moody
A person who knows he’s going to die in thirty minutes won’t do anything vain, stupid or, most of all, bad in that last half hour. But isn’t the half-century that might separate you from death the same as thirty minutes?
—Leo Tolstoy
How could Jesus be our ransom from the grave if he had himself remained under the dominion of death?
— Charles Spurgeon
Death may therefore have come into the world by a man; but the resurrection from the dead came also by a man (1 Cor. 15:21). Christ is Himself the resurrection and the life ( John 11:25).
—Herman Bavinck
Without the resurrection, the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr, with the resurrection, it is the atoning death of the Son of God.
—R. A. Torrey
If there’s life after death then it’s something we can’t imagine.
—Leo Tolstoy
His dead body was quickened.
The silent heart began again to beat.
Through the stagnant canals of the veins the life-flood began to circulate.
— Charles Spurgeon