Life and Death

Life ought not merely to contain acts of worship, it should be an act of worship.

—J. Blanchard

Every life without Christ is a mission field; every life with Christ is a missionary.

—Anon.

Live your own life, and you will die your own death. —Anon.

This world is our passage not our portion.

—Matthew Henry

Life, according to the Bible, is not just existence, but it is existence in the presence and with the favour of God; and death is not just the death of the body but it is separation from God and a doom that should fill the heart of man with a nameless dread.

—J. Machen

If life be short, then moderate your worldly cares and projects; do not cumber yourselves with too much provision for a short voyage.

—Thomas Manton

Live so as to be missed.

—Robert M. M’Cheyne

All the care in the world will not make us continue a minute beyond the time God has appointed.

—J.C. Ryle

If the second birth hath no place in you, the second death shall have power over you.

—William Dyer

Death and what is beyond will show who is wise and who is a fool.

—William S. Plumer

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

—Matthew Henry

Death is not now the death of me, but death will be the death of my misery, the death of my sins; it will be the death of my corruptions. But death will be my birthday in regard of happiness.

—Richard Sibbes

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing, and his own dying.

—Dr. Martin Luther

Death is but a passage out of a prison into a palace.

—John Bunyan

The dust of a believer is part of Christ’s mystic body.

—Thomas Watson

Lord, give me Simeon’s dismissal: Christ in my arms.

—Andrew Bonar

Ah! Is this dying? How have I dreaded as an enemy this smiling friend!

—Dr. Thomas Goodwin

He whose head is in heaven needs not fear to put his feet into the grave.

—Matthew Henry

Through Christ death is become friendly to me.

—Richard Sibbes

Lord, keep me from a sinful and too eager desire after death. I desire not to be impatient. I wish quietly to wait till my blessed change comes.

—George Whitefield

A believer’s last day is his best day.

—Thomas Brooks

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