Quotes About Transition

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.

Change is such hard work.

Victor Hugo said of death: "When I go down to the grave I can say, like so many others: I have finished my work, but I cannot say I have finished my life. My day's work will begin the next morning. My tomb is not a blind alley. It is a thoroughfare. It closes in the twilight to be open in the dawn.

Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It's not the destination, but the trip that they dread.

The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority.

Some day our journey through this life will be over and we will embark on another journey—one that will last forever.

Death is not the end of the road—it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.

The word departure literally means to pull up anchor and set sail. Everything that happens prior to death is a preparation for the final voyage. Death marks the beginning, not the end. It is our journey to God.

When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.

Though the Christian has no immunity from death and no claim to perpetual life on this planet, death is to him a friend rather than a foe, the beginning rather than the end, another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown.

Death is not the end of life; it is only the gateway to eternity.

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?

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.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born.

Many people who have lost jobs . . . find that this was God's way of redirecting their lives.

It was Sir Walter Scott who asked, "Is death the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

Millions of young people are shifting from one side to the other. They are like unguided missiles filled with energy and ambition and yet somehow not "fitting in." Peer pressure leads them astray . . . [and] in thousands of churches they are led astray theologically.

In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown . . . Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility.

A baby isn't meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian.

Many people plan financially for retirement—but not spiritually and emotionally.

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.