Quotes about Departure

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

While many good friends stood by us and stood up for us, we knew that we had obviously become a problem for the majority. So taking great care not to split the church by forcing people to take sides, we quietly left.

God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. Thy will be done is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.

When I no longer have your heart I will not request your body your presence or even your polite conversation. I will go away to a far country separated from you by the sea — on which I cannot walk — and refrain even from sending letters describing my pain.

One day she say to me, Well, Miss Celie, I believe it time for me to go. When? I ast. Early next month, she say. June. June a good time to go off into the world.

Remember: it is not given to man to take his goods with him.No one goes away and then comes back.

The chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more.

And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod.

He gave up the ghost.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.