Thoughts About Death

A series of funerals over the past few weeks, have had me thinking about death.  Here are some interesting quotes:

• “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” Mark Twain
• “Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: ‘Come home’.” Billy Graham
• “Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.” Benjamin Franklin
• “Death is God’s delightful way of giving us life.” Oswald Chambers
• “Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.” Mother Teresa
• Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• “Don’t die on third base.” LeRoy Ashmore, my High School Baseball Coach.
• “Someday you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal- a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.” Dwight L. Moody
• “When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” Cherokee Proverb.
• “ Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” Psalm 116:15
• “Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
  In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.” Final verse of “Abide with Me”
• “Letnot your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be al” John 14:1-4
• “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” Revelation 14:13
• “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 1 Corinthians 15:55 (KJV)