Able Quote by William Bradford

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

— Oswald Chambers

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:…

— Bible

The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . .…

— Thornton Wilder

O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light…

— George Eliot

This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to…

— Clare Vanderpool

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also…

— Saint Basil

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time…

— Pope Benedict XVI

It was our preparation, knowledge and experience that kept us alive.

— Rachel Kelsey

You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service…

— Matthew Henry

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

— Anonymous

Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into…

— Robert Boyle