Max Lucado Quotes

Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped — to reach it. For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

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

For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here finally ends.

The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.

It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.

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

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!