J. C. Ryle Quotes

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

For the living, death is thievery.

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

Death is only passing through God's other door.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

I was at the Wal-Mart, which is where I think everybody goes eventually. If they die without Christ.

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.