Quotes About Legacy

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

How different would today be if you knew it would be your last one on earth before meeting God face-to-face? We should strive to live every day as if it was our last, for one day it will be!

Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glorious heritage on our lust and passions.

Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.

Ageneration ago, Jim Elliot went from Wheaton College to become a missionary to the Aucas in Ecuador. Before he was killed, he wrote, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Nations rise, they flourish for a time, and then they decline. Eventually every empire comes to an end; not even the greatest can last forever.

There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

When I die, tell others that I've gone to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ—that's where I am.

End your journey well. Don't waste your life, and don't be satisfied with anything less than God's plan.

The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives.

Don't waste your life on things that have no eternal value.

We cannot inherit Christianity . . . God has no grandchildren.

Um dia vais ler ou ouvir que Billy Graham morreu. Não acredites nisso. Eu estarei mais vivo do que estou agora. Apenas terei mudado de endereço. Estarei na presença de Deus.

We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: "It is appointed unto men once to die" [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].

Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

My life is a gift from the Creator. What I do with it is my gift to the Creator.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

Sure, but why does it have to be in MY lifetime? {when told that a voice like Frank Sinatra's came only once in a lifetime]

I like old things. They have an aura of the past... and I wonder whose hands have touched them. Their long histories give them depth and personality. My dream is to travel in pursuit of those histories... and find my own special place.

Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.