Quotes about Mortality

To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached. Ask God to help you see life on earth as he sees it. David prayed, "Lord, help me to realize how brief my time on earth will be. Help me to know that I am here for but a moment more.

Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: There is more to life than just here and now. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "This world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever." 1 JOHN 2:17 (NLT) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: Since I was made to last forever, what is the one thing I should stop doing and the one thing I should start doing today?

We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we're here. It was God's property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die. You just get to enjoy it for a while.

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.

I have slept Weeping, and weeping I have waked; my tears Have flow'd as if my body were not such As others are, and I could never die.

In the words of the Scottish proverb, 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

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Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.

However healthy you think you are, remember that vegetarians die too.

The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.