Quotes about Dying
Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”
— Zechariah 11:9
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
— Peter Kreeft
Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.
— Philip Yancey
Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.
— Julian of Norwich
Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
— Genesis 27:10
I preach as a dying man to dying men.
— Greg Laurie
And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
— Genesis 35:18
By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and, he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. Hebrews 11:21
— Beth Moore
Christian faith isn't just a conviction, a feeling and a decision. It invades life so deeply that we have to talk about dying and being born again, which is what corresponds to the death and resurrection of Christ.
— Jurgen Moltmann
One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.
— Martin Luther