Quotes about Legacy

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.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.