When Christ died, the ransom was prepared, the sum laid down; but yet the elect continue still in sin and misery, until, by effectual calling it be actually applied to their persons, and then they are made free, reconciled by Christ’s death, by whom we have now rec’d atonement.
—John Flavel
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
—Socrates
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
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
—Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Plato
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
—Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
—Socrates
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
—Immanuel Kant
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
—Aristotle
No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.
—Michelangelo
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
—Oscar Wilde
Wealth and luxury produce stagnation, and stagnation terminates in death.
—William Wilberforce
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
—Mark Twain
Remember that you’re not standing still, but passing through, that you’re not in a house but on a train that’s taking you toward death. Remember that your body is just passing through and lives for a short time and that only the spirit within you truly lives.
—Leo Tolstoy
People desire to make God a dead God, in order to be able to deal with him according to their pleasure. But the Holy Scripture calls to man: You have gone astray; God exists. He is the true God; he lives, now and forever.
—Herman Bavinck
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
—Marcus Aurelius
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
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
—Marcus Aurelius
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
—Cicero
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
—Cicero
Paul fights against dead works while James wages a campaign against a dead faith.
—Herman Bavinck
It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
—Socrates
O that I could begin this year with God, and spend the whole of it to his glory, either in life or death!
—David Brainerd
This, through grace, I can say at present, with regard to life or death, ‘The Lord do with me as seems good in his sight;’ that whether I live or die, I may glorify him, who is ‘worthy to receive blessing, and honour, and dominion for ever. Amen.’
—David Brainerd
…what a death it is, to strive, and strive; to be always in a hurry, and yet do nothing, or at least nothing for God!
—David Brainerd
It may much conduce to your willingness to die to consider that by death God oftentimes hides His people out of the way of all temptations and troubles upon earth.
—John Flavel
Most men need patience to die, but a saint that understands what death admits him to should rather need patience to live.
—John Flavel
Consider what heavy burdens death will ease your shoulders of.
Death is the best physician; it will cure you of all diseases at once.
—John Flavel
Your heart may be kept from shrinking back at [death] by considering the necessity of death, in order to the full fruition of God. Whether you are willing to die or not, I assure you there is no other way to obtain the full satisfaction of your soul and complete its happiness.
—John Flavel