Brandon Sanderson Quotes

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.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

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

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.

Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.

Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

Keep eternity before the children.

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

It's important to have a spiritual side because tomorrow's no promise to us. We have to pay homage to our saviour and put him in our life more because, without him, you don't know where you're going to go.

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.

Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service.