Quotes about Death

In God's plan every life is long enough and every death is timely. And though you and I might wish for a longer life, God knows better. And—this is important—though you and I may wish a longer life for our loved ones, they don't. Ironically, the first to accept God's decision of death is the one who dies.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, Death, where is thy sting? with It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.

Midwives and winding sheets know birthing is hard and dying is mean and living's a trial in between. Why do we journey, muttering like rumors among the stars? Is a dimension lost? Is it love?

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. Proverbs 18:21

Israel said to Joseph, "Look! I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers." Genesis 48:21

Godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death. 2 Corinthians 7:10

I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. John 11:25

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

Gethsemane is all the things we fear most except one. We fear we are unheard. We're sure of it, but it is not true. It was in that original Gethsemane that Jesus, in the words of Hebrews 5:7, offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard...And we are heard.

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 1 John 3:14

We who live are always given over to death because of Jesus, so that Jesus' life may also be revealed in our mortal flesh. 2 Corinthians 4:11