If yet your heart hangs back (from thoughts of death), consider the great advantage you will have by death above all that ever you enjoyed on earth. For your communion with God, the time of perfecting that is now come.
—John Flavel
Sin was the sword that pierced Christ, and so the death of Christ becomes the death of sin in His people.
—John Flavel
It is only a wink, and you shall see God. Your happiness shall not be deferred till the resurrection, but as soon as the body is dead the gracious soul is swallowed up in life (Rom 8:10–11).
—John Flavel
Not only death but all of death’s attendants will be vanquished by the resurrection of the body.
R.C. Sproul
Man’s spiritual deadness is such, that he can no more move toward Heaven, so much as one step, than a dead man can rise of himself.
John Philips
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die.
—Stephen Hawking
Blessed be the Lord, he is never unmindful of me, but always sends me needed supplies… when I am like one dead, he raises me to life.
—David Brainerd
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
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Scripture knows of no earnings that men can make of themselves but death
—John Owen
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
—William Shakespeare
Death waits for no one and nothing. Therefore, there’s nothing more important in this world for you than what you’re doing right now.
—Leo Tolstoy
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 Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.
—Julius Caesar
The goal of all life is death.
—Sigmund Freud
Live so that you neither fear death nor desire it.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Whenever a doubt is proposed to me I fall back upon this fact: Jesus did rise from the dead. That is sure.”
— Charles Spurgeon
If our lot be so cast that we can exercise our ministry free from stripes, fines, imprisonment, and death, it is more than the Gospel has promised us.
—John Newton
Such a death, in such a manner, with such attendancies of wrath and curse, – a death accompanied with the worst that God had ever threatened to sinners, – argues as high a valuation of us as the heart of Christ himself was capable of.
—John Owen
Such a death, in such a manner, with such attendancies of wrath and curse, – a death accompanied with the worst that God had ever threatened to sinners, – argues as high a valuation of us as the heart of Christ himself was capable of.
—John Owen
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
—Sun Tzu
If you do not come to Christ, you must either continue still weary and burdened, or, which is worse, you must return to your old dead sleep, to a state of stupidity; and not only so, but you must be everlastingly wearied with God’s wrath.
—Jonathan Edwards
Nothing more habitually reconciles a child of God to the thought of death than the wearisomeness of…warfare with sin and temptation.
—John Newton
If we suppose that Christ died without any absolute determination that any particular persons should be saved by his death, we must suppose that he undertook to die when he was wholly at uncertainties about the success of his death.
—Jonathan Edwards
Now may He who from the dead
Brought the Shepherd of the sheep,
JESUS CHRIST, our King and Head,
All our souls in safety keep!
—John Newton
God when he will bring life, brings it out of death, he brings joy out of sorrow, and he brings prosperity out of adversity.
—Jeremiah Burroughs