Quotes related to 1 Peter 1:24-25
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
— Margaret Atwood
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
— Billy Graham
Man soll bauen als wollt man ewig leben, und also leben als sollt man morgen sterben. One should build as if one would live forever, and live as though one would die tomorrow.
— Martin Luther
Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death.
— NT Wright
Beauty, like justice, slips through our fingers. We photograph the sunset, but all we get is the memory of the moment, not the moment itself. We buy the recording, but the symphony says something different when we listen to it at home.
— NT Wright
What is will not last forever.
— Paul David Tripp
“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
— Psalm 39:4
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
— Psalm 103:15
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
— Psalm 129:6
So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
— Ecclesiastes 11:10
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
— Isaiah 40:8