Quotes about Legacy

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors.

A career may end with retirement and lots of "toys." A calling isn't over until the day you die.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Was that a tragedy? Two lives, driven by one great passion, namely, to be spent in unheralded service to the perishing poor for the glory of Jesus Christ—even two decades after most of their American counterparts had retired to throw away their lives on trifles. No, that is not a tragedy. That is a glory. These lives were not wasted. And these lives were not lost. "Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it" (Mark 8:35).

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Expose yourself to Bible-saturated people, both the living and the dead. Their lives and their words are a great help to our joy.

You will leave all your material wealth behind, but a wealth of knowledge goes with you.

Come to the end of your life—your one and only precious, God-given life—and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: "Look, Lord. See my shells." That is a tragedy.