Quotes about Death
Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Easter? Our attention falls more on dying than on death. How we deal with dying is more important to us than how we conquer death. Socrates overcame dying; Christ overcame death.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The cross of Christ is the death which we undergo once and for all in our baptism, and it is a death full of grace.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The source of their faith lies in the once-and-for-allness of Christ's death, which they have experienced in their baptism.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The call to discipleship, or baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, means death and life. Christ's call, or baptism, means placing the Christian into a daily struggle against sin and the devil.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus Christ in his word must be our death and our life.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Death cannot keep back love; love is stronger than death. The meaning of Good Friday and Easter Sunday is that God's path to human beings leads back to God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.
— Don Piper
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
— Albert Camus
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.
— Thomas Cranmer
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
— Wendell Berry
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
— Etty Hillesum