Conditions Quote by John Owen

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

— John Owen

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop…

— Pope Francis

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

— Tom Robbins

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

— Jon Richardson

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart…

— Jack Kevorkian

“IV.The wounded surgeon plies the steelThat questions the distempered part;Beneath the bleeding hands we feelThe sharp compassion of the healer's artResolving the enigma of…

— T.S. Eliot

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be…

— Plutarch

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

— Dallin H. Oaks

Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains.…

— Nikolai Gogol

Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what…

— William Shakespeare

“By the way, don’t ever let someone convince you that there’s anything — and I mean anything — good about dying. There is nothing…

— Ron Currie Jr