Only once we fully embrace death can we fully embrace life, once we fully put our old nature to death can we live fully in our new nature and in the Spirit
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. NIV
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
-Erik H. Erikson
Every man dies but not every man truly lives
-William Wallace
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
-Henry Van Dyke
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Death has been swallowed up in victory.” ”Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. NIV
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death-that is, the devil- and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. NIV
For me to live is Christ and to die is gain. NIV
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
-Maurice Maeterlinck