Quotes about Death

Death is not the end of life; it is only the gateway to eternity.

Although the testimony of my mother's life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.

Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.

Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.

Death has two stages, first the separation of the body from the spirit . . . for a purely spiritual existence, and second, reunion with the body and a glorious resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ.

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution. . . . Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life" (Revelation 2:10).