Edward Young Quotes

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Death is the most blessed dream.

Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!

We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must resist every attempt of Satan to palm off upon us the values that belong to mortality. Nothing less than forever is long enough for us.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?