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.
– Augustine
Death | Eternity
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
– William Penn
Death | Eternity | Time
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
– George Whitefield
Life | Death
You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.
– Billy Graham
Death | Salvation
We’ll say good night here and good morning up there.
– John R. Rice
Death | Heaven
Death to the Christian is the funeral of all his sorrows and evils, and the resurrection, of all his joys.
– James H. Aughey
Death
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
– George Macdonald
Death | Fear
We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.
– John Owen
Peace | Death
Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living – that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.
– Charles Spurgeon
Death | Life
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
– Helen Keller
Death
The Jews looked upon a serpent to be freed from serpents; and we look upon the death of Christ to be delivered from death.
– Augustine
Christ | Death | Salvation
I don’t so much pray that my death will be without pain, but that it will be without doubt.
– John Piper
Death | Pain | Doubt
I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.
– Adoniram Judson
Service | Death
As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. … Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!
– Dwight L. Moody
Death
Where sin has been removed death can only interrupt the earthly life and usher in the heavenly.
– John MacArthur
Death
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man’s back, before the old man’s face.
– Thomas Adams
Death | Youth
We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of Death smiting our best beloved.
– Charles Spurgeon
Death
How awful to die out of Christ! How blessed to die in Christ!
– William Tiptaft
Death
Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
– Dwight L. Moody
Death | Preaching
Ye have lost a child; nay, she is not lost to you, who is found in Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star which, going out of sight, does not die and vanish, but shines in another hemisphere.
– Samuel Rutherford
Children | Death
There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
– Hannah More
Christians | Death
When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.’
– C.S. Lewis
Death
Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal- a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.
– Dwight L. Moody
Heaven | Death
Some wonder how a person so pro-life as me could accept the law of a death penalty. But a death sentence is a result of a lengthy and thorough judicial process applied to a person deemed guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. That’s far different from one person singularly deciding to end the life of a totally innocent and helpless unborn child. In that case, there is no process of justice, no evidence of guilt presented, no defense for the condemned child, and no appeal.
– Mike Huckabee
Life | Death | Abortion
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
– Florence Nightingale
Death | Change
Let them fear death who do not fear sin.
– Thomas Watson
Death | Sin
When life on earth is ending, people don’t surround themselves with objects. What we want around us is people – people we love and have relationships with.
– Rick Warren
Death | Relationships
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying.
– Thomas a Kempis
Death
It is hard to have patience with people who say “There is no death” or “Death doesn’t matter.” There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter.
– C.S. Lewis
Death | Atheism
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.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Death
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
– Martin Luther
Believing | Death
The world is put back by the death of everyone who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
– Florence Nightingale
Death | Gifts | Sacrifice
If life has not made you by God’s grace, through faith, holy–think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! No! As you go down into them, you will come up from them.
– Alexander MacLaren
Death | Faith
We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus. Whatever some may think, we believe that the whole spirit and tone of the Word of God, as well as the nature of God Himself, lead us to believe that all who leave this world as babes are saved.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Death
Men in general do not live as if they looked to die; and therefore do not die as if they looked to live.
– Thomas Manton
Death
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
– Blaise Pascal
Death | Rest
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.
– John Henry Newman
Life | Death
It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Grace | Death
Fit or not fit–we must all die, and we know not how soon. As death leaves us, the judgment must find us.
– William Tiptaft
Death | Justice
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.
– Augustine
Death
Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.
– Assorted Authors
Death
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
– William Gurnall
Heaven | Death
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
– Blaise Pascal
Death | Morality | Quarreling
Until we are willing to die, we have no right to live.
– Jack Hyles
Death
When it comes to life and death, there’s no third option.
– Woodrow Kroll
Death
Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met death overcame death; the first soul parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.
– Joseph Hall
Death | Murder
Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings!
– Dwight L. Moody
Death | Jesus
Six feet by two-and-a-half is all the ground that the richest man in England will shortly occupy.
– William Tiptaft
Death
Many good purposes and intentions lie in the churchyard.
– Matthew Henry
Death
A wretched, poor and helpless worm, on Thy kind arms I fall.
– William Carey
Death
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
– C.S. Lewis
Death
We scarce conceive how easy it is to rob God of his due, in our friendship with the most virtuous persons, until they are torn from us by death. But if this loss produces lasting sorrow, that is a clear proof that we had before two treasures, between which we divided our heart.
– John Wesley
Death
I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.
– Adoniram Judson
Service | Death
I am so glad God will never allow a man to go comfortably and peacefully to eternal death. He never allows any man to be lost until He has done His best to save him.
– Clovis G. Chappell
Death
There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.
– Watchman Nee
Death
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
– Matthew Henry
Heaven | Death
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Death
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
– William Law
Death | Worldliness
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father’s palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.
– Charles Spurgeon
Death
You will tell the others that I am going home a little sooner than I thought. Then tell them not to talk about the servant but to talk about the Savior.
– F.B. Meyer
Death
For thirty years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize.
– David Livingstone
Death | Evangelism
It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.
– Assorted Authors
Death
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
– Augustine
Death
Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.
– Assorted Authors
Christ | Death
“Perfect correspondence,” according to Mr. Herbert Spencer, would be “perfect Life.” To abolish Death, therefore, all that would be necessary would be to abolish Imperfection. But it is the claim of Christianity that it can abolish Death. And it is significant to notice that it does so by meeting this very demand of Science–it abolishes Imperfection.
– Henry Drummond
Death
When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.
– Jim Elliot
Death
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
– Charles Wesley
God | Death | Work
The hope of dying is the only thing that keeps me alive.
– Vance Havner
Death
The only difference in death between a Christian and one who is not is that the Christian is ready to meet Jesus. A Christian is dead already – dead to the world, but alive to Christ. Death for you as a child of God is to fall asleep in His arms and awake in the other world, alive forever beyond the power of pain, safe forever from all sickness and suffering.
– Winkie Pratney
Christians | Death
Sin’s first-born is death – and its last-born is hell.
– William Secker
Sin | Death | Hell
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison, till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly, when I am loosed.
– Joseph Hall
Death
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Death | Bitterness
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer the fear of death.
– Francois Fenelon
Death | Piety
Death is the last and best physician, which cures all diseases and sins – the aching head and the unbelieving heart. Sin was the midwife which brought death into the world; and death shall be the grave to bury sin! O the privilege of a believer!
– Thomas Watson
Death
With death all will be taken from us, all earthly goods, riches, beauty of body and raiment, spacious dwellings, etc., but the virtue of the soul, that incorruptible raiment, shall remain with us eternally.
– John of Kronstadt
Death
I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.
– Assorted Authors
Death
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
– Thomas Adams
Death
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
– Assorted Authors
Death
The people of God may have to taste a little of the waters of death’s dark river, but Christ went to the very bottom of it, and rose again, and is alive for evermore.
– G.V. Wigram
Christians | Death
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
– C.S. Lewis
Death | Life
Whomsoever the last day of his own life finds unprepared, this last day will find unprepared also.
– Augustine
Death
For we brought nothing into the world and we cannot take anything out of the world (1 Tim. 6:7). There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.
– John Piper
Death
If you have one grain of grace, you must die to know how rich you are.
– William Tiptaft
Death
Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.
– Richard Baxter
Sin | Death
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
– Richard Sibbes
Death
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valley of tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
– Thomas Adams
Death
We do not picture the possessor of this carnal mind as in any sense a monster. We have said he may be high-toned, virtuous, and pure. The plant is not a monster because it is dead to the voice of the bird; nor is he a monster who is dead to the voice of God. The contention at present simply is that he is DEAD.
– Henry Drummond
Death
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
– Assorted Authors
Death
Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.
– Billy Sunday
Death
Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.
– C.S. Lewis
Death
You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men. This is mine: that a life spent in the service of God, and communion with Him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.
– Matthew Henry
Death | Life
If life has not made you by God’s grace, through faith, holy–think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! No! As you go down into them, you will come up from them.
– Alexander MacLaren
Death | Faith
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.
– Assorted Authors
Death | Work
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.
– Henry Drummond
Death | Love
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
– C.S. Lewis
Death
I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Future | Death
When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn’t keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn’t lose?
– Randy Alcorn
Death | Finances
Are you ready to shake hands with death?
– William Tiptaft
Death
The world dares say no more for its device, than “while I live, I hope”; but the children of God can add by virtue of a living hope, “while I expire, I hope.”
– Robert Leighton
Virtue | Death
The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.
– Richard Baxter
Death