Quotes about Mortality

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

what does old Donne say? "God knows in what part of the world every grain of every man's dust lies

In the United States of America there are twenty-seven million people under twenty-one years of age who receive no Christian training at all. Juvenile crime in the big cities is tremendous—sometimes it seems absolutely out of control. Every week one million people are dying without Jesus. In one minute, eighty-five people pass into eternity. In just the brief span of a church service hundreds are passing out into the presence of God. Does that mean anything to you?

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.

Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of her.

What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287—300).

Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.