Edward Young Quotes

Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this event. A glorious resurrection should be the goal of every man and woman, for resurrection will be a reality.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

For the believing Christian, death is no big deal….For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence. What a horrible act!

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.