Quotes about Legacy

Abandoning the tiny story of me and embracing the forever Story of Jesus will allow our little lives to be filled with the wonder of God as we live for the unending applause of His name. And joining our small stories to His will give us what we all want most in life, anyway: the assurance that our brief moments on earth will count for something in a Story that never ends.

Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things.

Not lost, but gone before.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

God wants our lives to be significant!

I seek an incorruptible inheritance," Christian answered. "It's pure and untarnished, and it never fades.

All you leave behind isn't worthy to be compared with the tiniest portion of that which I am seeking to enjoy.

As the saying of the wise says, 'All this world promotes is vanity.' (But if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity. — Eccles. 11:8)

He died at the house of one Mr Struddock, a grocer, at the Star on Snow Hill, in the parish of St Sepulchre's, London, on the 12th of August 1688, and in the sixtieth year of his age, after ten days' sickness; and was buried in the new burying place near the Artillery Ground; where he sleeps to the morning of the resurrection, in hopes of a glorious rising to an incorruptible immortality of joy and happiness;

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

Leaders who attract followers... Need to be needed leaders who develop leaders... Want to be succeeded.

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish.