David Jeremiah Quotes

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.

The dead govern the living.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

I don't care much whether people remember me or not. If people remember, well and good. If they don't remember, it's alright - I'm dead anyway.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!

Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead

Keep eternity before the children.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.