{"id":3534,"date":"2024-07-21T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2024-07-21T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T12:50:06","slug":"thoughts-about-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2024\/07\/thoughts-about-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts About Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of funerals over the past few weeks, have had me thinking about death.\u00a0 Here are some interesting quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cLet us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.\u201d\u00a0Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/954234\">Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: \u2018Come home\u2019.<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/5776-Billy_Graham\">Billy Graham<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cMany people die at twenty-five and aren\u2019t buried until they are seventy-five.\u201d\u00a0Benjamin Franklin<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDeath is God\u2019s delightful way of giving us life.\u201d Oswald Chambers<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDeath is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.\u201d Mother Teresa<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/1072466\">Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/13978-Charles_Spurgeon\">Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cDon\u2019t die on third base.\u201d\u00a0LeRoy Ashmore, my High School Baseball Coach.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSomeday you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don&#8217;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.\u201d Dwight L. Moody<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.\u201d\u00a0Cherokee Proverb.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.\u201d Psalm 116:15<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHeaven&#8217;s morning breaks, and earth&#8217;s vain shadows flee;<br \/>\nIn life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.\u201d\u00a0Final verse of \u201cAbide with Me\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLetnot your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.\u00a0In My Father\u2019s house are many\u00a0mansions; if\u00a0it were\u00a0not\u00a0so,\u00a0I would have told you.\u00a0I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you,\u00a0I will come again and receive you to Myself; that\u00a0where I am,\u00a0there\u00a0you may be al\u201d John 14:1-4<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBlessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.\u201d Revelation 14:13<\/li>\n<li>\u201cO death, where is thy sting? 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