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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
— Charles Spurgeon
When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
— Andrew Jackson
Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.
— Thomas a Kempis
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
— St. Augustine
In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)
— Philip Yancey
the best way to prepare for suffering is to work on a strong, supportive life when you're healthy.
— Philip Yancey
But there is another change coming for you and me down the road. Are we ready for this? There will come a day—sooner or later—when God will say, "Your time is up." We all have to die. What is more, everything that we are doing in this life should be getting us ready for that day. So I am now going to ask you: Do you know for sure that if you were to die today, you would go to heaven? It is the most important question anybody can
— RT Kendall
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready. —D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES
— RT Kendall
I say luck is when an opportunoty comes along, and you're prepared for it.
— Denzel Washington
The young man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others snooze, pray while others daydream. Slothful habits are overcome, whether in thought, deed, or dress. The emerging leader eats right, stands tall, and prepares himself to wage spiritual warfare
— J. Oswald Sanders