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Dying Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself.…
- Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
- Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular…
- Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
- The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth,…
More Dying Quotes
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. — Brigitte Bardot
- All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
- I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter