The Art of Dying Quotes

“if Christians are to know the greatness of Jesus Christ’s victory over death, they must know that death is evil.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“While we do not mourn as those who have no hope, we do mourn.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“The living Christians and the dead are still of one body, still of one hope.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“funeral, he says, is like the North Star to a sailor.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“We all need to learn to die well, whatever age we are.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Mourning is the transition from one life with a person we loved to another life without that person.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Proper grieving takes time, and taking that time recognizes the importance of the person’s life.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Death is real; there is no need to say that because our loved one is in heaven, death doesn’t exist.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Christians sometimes impose a kind of ban on mourning, using the hope of heaven as an excuse to avoid being confronted with someone else’s pain.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“However, those in mourning and their comforters may make grieving more difficult when our Christian hope is used to discourage public mourning.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“The funeral is when a mourner is for the first time among society as a different person.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“it is good to look death in the eye and constantly remind ourselves that our hope is in God, who defeated death.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Paul called death the last enemy. Death is indeed evil. Yet death is also a mercy; it is the final affliction of life’s miseries.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“God is glorified when people die having lived a full life, accepting God’s plan, hoping for continued life in Christ and trusting God to care for them in the journey from this life to the next.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“God, however, doesn’t need the surgeon’s assistance to restore health.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Prepare your heart for your departure. If you are wise, you will expect it every hour. . . . And when the time of departure comes, go joyfully to meet it, saying, “come in peace. I knew you would come, and I have not neglected anything that could help me on the journey.”[10]”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“unfamiliarity with death can discourage us from fulfilling our familial responsibilities.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“In the end death is as mysterious to us as resurrection.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Funerals help us to measure our days.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Churches that are “growing younger” don’t allow their members to do what they all must: grow older.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“When Christians don’t allow for true lament, they can cut short the grieving process.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“A funeral begins the reintegration of a mourning believer into the community of Christians.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“God himself is in control of our leaving this world,”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Dying is an art only because through it God is at work. Only in God’s hand can something ugly and terrible be transformed into a thing of beauty and purpose. In the end death is as mysterious to us as resurrection.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“Surely God is quite active at the deaths of his beloved, for precious in his sight are the deaths of his saints.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come

“For Christians in previous centuries, death was a sacred moment long prepared for.”
― Rob Moll, The Art of Dying: Living Fully into the Life to Come