Quotes about Passage

I have seen enough, too, to know that it is not always the youngest and best who are spared to those that love them; but this should give us comfort rather than sorrow, for Heaven is just, and such things teach us impressively that there is a far brighter world than this, and that the passage to it is speedy.

Death is not an end but a doorway we walk through as automatically as we take our next breath.

The breath of God was his yet, though it pass from man to man through all of time.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Joy, joy forever, my task is done. The gates are passed, and heaven is won.

Death is the entrance into the great light.

The world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Every true gospel vocation is a resurrection vocation that arrives after a passage through the belly of the fish. All "word of God" vocations are thus formed. There can be no authentic vocation that is not shaped by passage through some such interior.

We want a rite of passage. We want to grow up.

The pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.