Tenuous Hope

"The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws every day nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded."

- A.W. Tozer

Hope In The Midst of Death

"It is through death that we deeply touch life... I realize that God wants me to partake in the experience of death. As I do he will strengthen my hope in the midst of it."

- Henri Nouwen

Tomorrow Is Never Guaranteed

"Should the quickness of a death that must come to us all be cause for added grief? Perhaps. But perhaps it would do us all well to remember that the next moment is never guaranteed. And perhaps it would do us all well to know there is a death worse than what I experienced in that room. One that does not strike with speed, but numbness.

Far worse than the buried dead are those who have perished and yet still walk. Those who have yielded to the crushing weight of the world, who have surrendered their hopes and dreams to the arid winds of despair. Who have seen too much darkness and so surrendered their light, believing it to be too faint to matter."

- An excerpt from A Fate Worse Than Death by Billy on his blog What I Learned Today



Fear

"Don't fear death, fear the unlived life."

- Natalie Babbitt