On Death Quotes

“Everything in this life is going to be taken away from us, except one thing: God’s love, which can go into death with us and take us through it and into His arms.”
― Timothy J. Keller, On Death

“Modern culture, then, is the worst in history at preparing its members for the only inevitability—death. When this limited meaning horizon comes together with the advance of medicine, it leaves many people paralyzed with anxiety and fear when confronted with a dying person.”
― Timothy J. Keller, On Death

“To say "Oh, death is just natural," is to harden and perhaps kill a part of your heart's hope that makes you human. We know deep down that we are not like trees or grass. We were created to last. We don't want to be ephemeral, to be inconsequential. We don't want to just be a wave upon the stand. The deepest desires of our hearts are for love that lasts.

Death is not the way it ought to be. It is abnormal, it is not a friend, it isn't right. This isn't truly part of the circle of life. Death is the end of it. So grieve. Cry. The Bible tells us not only to weep, but to weep with those who are weeping (Romans12:15 NASB). We have a lot of crying to do.”
― Timothy J. Keller, On Death

“Grieve with hope; wake up and be at peace; laugh in the face of death, and sing for joy at what’s coming. If Jesus Christ has you by the hand, you can sing.”
― Timothy J. Keller, On Death

“Paul is calling us to a balanced combination of two extremes. Notice he does not say, “Don’t grieve.” He wants Christians to grieve when loved ones die, but in a particular way. He says neither, “Instead of grieving I want you to have hope,” nor “There’s really no hope, so just cry and grieve.” Rather, he says Christians can and must both grieve profoundly and fully and yet do so with hope.”
― Timothy J. Keller, On Death

“A Prayer Our Father, you are the strength of your people, and we ask now that you would heal the brokenhearted among us and bind up their wounds. We ask that you would grant to them and to all else the vision of that life in which all tears are wiped away and all shadows have fled away. Raise us up in your Spirit’s power now to follow you in hope and trust, and give us your loving power to protect us, your wise power to nurture us, your beauty to enrapture us, your peace to fulfill us, and lift up our hearts in the light and love of your presence. And we ask in the name of the one who is the Resurrection and the Life, Jesus Christ. Amen.”
― Timothy J. Keller, On Death