quotes and verse for the terminal illness

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I look at the calendar and see my birth date rolling around. Charity will be the whole syllabus.Īs I continue my advance through my 50’s, I am certain that I am closer to my death than I am to my birth. On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian. The school of Christ is the school of charity. Teacher: “If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she’d get into Harvard.” Me: “I’ll settle for Heaven.” Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. There, instead of victory, is truth instead of high rank, holiness instead of peace, felicity instead of life, eternity.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. The people hung upon His words – that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Heaven will display far more variety than Hell. The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. The last seat in purgatory is better than the first seat in you know where. We can’t experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place. No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. He who carries God in his heart bears heaven with him wherever he goes. If God did not forgive sinners Heaven would be empty. There’s nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. The saints went to Heaven before they went to Heaven. It’s a good way to keep ourselves out of it. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. Hell is not a subject to be avoided it is a place to be avoided. If you seek to make Heaven on earth, you’ll get Hell.

We are always trying to find an easy way into Heaven.Īs sailors are guided by a star to the port, so are Christians guided to Heaven by Mary.Įverything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. It is life’s change agent.Įach and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces… And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, “Mine, mine.” May we be Christ’s! Many who plan to seek God at the eleventh hour die at 10:30.ĭeath is very likely the single best invention of life. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side. The national anthem of Hell is “I Did It My Way”.

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Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.ĭon’t wait for six strong men to take you to church.Ī priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.Īll the way to Heaven is Heaven, because He is the way. The doors of Hell are locked from the inside. The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality. The one thing Jesus is going to ask us when we get to Heaven: Where are your brothers and sisters?