 Are you ready to shake hands with death? Author: William Tiptaft |
| Six feet by two-and-a-half is all the ground that the richest man in England will shortly occupy. Author: William Tiptaft |
| How awful to die out of Christ! How blessed to die in Christ! Author: William Tiptaft |
| If you have one grain of grace, you must die to know how rich you are. Author: William Tiptaft |
| Fit or not fit--we must all die, and we know not how soon. As death leaves us, the judgment must find us. Author: William Tiptaft |
| How many who died last century are in hell--who never committed half the sins some of you have! Author: William Tiptaft |
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| 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. Author: G.V. Wigram |
| A good conscience will save no man, wash away no sin, not lift us one hair's breadth towards heaven. Yet a good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour. Author: J.C. Ryle |
| Christ never preached any funeral sermons. Author: D.L. Moody |
| 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. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Death, p. 159. |
| "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. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 249. |
| 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. Author: John Owen
Source: Meditation on the Glory of Christ, 1684, Preface. |
