Quotes about Mortality

To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When it comes, it is not an accident, but a necessity. It is not the sort of suffering which is inseparable from this mortal life, but the suffering which is an essential part of the specifically Christian life. It is not suffering per se but suffering-and-rejection, and not rejection for any cause or conviction of our own, but rejection for the sake of Christ.

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.