Alive Quote by Vance Havner

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

— George Whitefield

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and…

— George Whitefield

The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?

— George Whitefield

The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no…

— Philip Neri

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to -…

— W. G. Sebald

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

— John Owen

As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances…

— Madame de Stael

The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.

— Clarence Jordan

“It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before the body…

— Shannon L. Alder

The dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo