Dying Quotes - Page 20

• At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Death, Heaven, Citizens

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1978). “You're richer than you think”

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• Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.

  N.D. Wilson

  Live Well, Wells

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.84, Thomas Nelson

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• I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.184, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us.  We are afraid of not having lived.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Scare

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• I don't know why I've spent over half of
  My life talking about dying

  Wesley Eisold

  Talking, Half, Knows

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• It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Believe, People, Majority

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• Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.

  Fauja Singh

  Stress, Worry, Small Things

  "The secret of the world's oldest marathon runner" by Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.

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• A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.

  Phil Pringle

  Christian, Godly, Brave

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.27, Whitaker House

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• If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Forever, Church, Looks

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• Once you stop learning, you start dying

  Albert Einstein

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• I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

  Martin Luther

  Reading, Writing, Practice

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• Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Self, Expression

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• Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Yesterday

  "John and Elizabeth Edwards defend decision to run". www.cnn.com. March 25, 2007.

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• Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

  Charles Spurgeon (2014). “Commentary on Colossians”, p.22, Ravenio Books

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• Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Losing, Driving

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• Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
  And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
  Eagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
  From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Leonore -
  For the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore -
  Nameless here for evermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Angel, Names

  "The Raven" l. 7 (1845)

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• We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame is always placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so as long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing. I will make mine whisky.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Coffee, Simple

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.152, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Player, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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• If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Fit, Found

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• He said, Contented? I am the MOST discontented man in the world! Don't you know I am the wealthiest man in the world? That is my discontent. Now I know there is no more to wealth: all that is possible I have attained, and yet I am dying empty. My life has been just a wastage. Next time, if God gives me another opportunity, I am not going to try money any more - it has failed.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Opportunity, Men

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• It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Winning, Hollywood, Oscars

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• It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung.

  Bill Hicks

  Oxygen, Iron, People

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• Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

  Robert Breault

  Integrity, Selfish, Mistake

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• Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

  Thomas Gray

  Death, Sleep, Cells

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 13 (1751

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• We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Death, World, Birth

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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