Quotes about Legacy

Sooner or later, we are going to face death; should we be making preparations while we are living?

It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.

No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die—someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?

Although the testimony of my mother's life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.

The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as "the century of superficiality".

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

How different would today be if you knew it would be your last one on earth before meeting God face-to-face? We should strive to live every day as if it was our last, for one day it will be!

Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.