Quotes About Mortality

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.

Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality.

How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!

God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.

I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.