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For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.
- Euripides
Thy money perish with thee.
- Anonymous
Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.
- John Calvin
The work of God needs to be done. Souls must not perish while you give your attention to your worldly business or worldly pleasure, take your ease, or quarrel with your brethren.
- Richard Baxter
Understandably, they, with others who knew Jim well, wondered if perhaps his ministry might not be more effective in the United States, where so many know so little of the Bible's real message. He replied: 'I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Everyone deserves Hell. No one deserves Heaven. Jesus went to the cross to offer salvation to all (1 John 2:2). God is absolutely sovereign and doesn't desire any to die without Christ (1 Timothy 2:3-4; 2 Peter 3:9). Yet many will perish in their unbelief (Matthew 7:13).
- Randy Alcorn
But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?" Matthew 26:52—54, NKJV
- Darlene Zschech
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
- John Milton
It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.
- Ellen White