To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

Joy springs from a life lived with eternity's values in view.

Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.