1.  A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. (Stalin)

2.  Ah! Is this dying?  How have I dreaded as an enemy this smiling friend? (Thomas Goodwin)

3.  When Christ calls me home I shall go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from school.  (Adoniram Judson)

4.  If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince; would they be afraid to go to bed…?

5.  A dying man is a balloon throwing down its ballast.  (Petit Senn)

6.  At a funeral we bury something not someone; it is the house not the tenant that is lowered into the grave.  (Verna Wright)

7.  One out of one dies.  (G.B. Shaw)

8.  Death is but a passage out of a prison into a palace.  (John Bunyan)

9.  As death leaves us, so judgement finds us.  (Thomas Brooks)

10. How many Christians live their lives packed up and ready to go?  (J.I. Packer)

11. No Christian has ever been known the recant on his deathbed.  (C.M. Ward)

12. The conquest of death is the final achievement of religion.  No religion is worth its name unless it can prove itself more than a match for death.  (L.P. Jacks)

13. Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.  (Richard Sibbes)

14. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.  (Rabindranath Tagore)

15. If your time ain’t come not even a doctor can kill you.  (American Proverb)

16. After all, what is death?  Just nature’s way of telling us to slow down.  (Dick Sharples)

17. We spend our years with sighing; it is a valley of tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.  (Thomas Watson)

18. Death.  It is the most misunderstood part of life.  It is not a great sleep but a great awakening.  It is that moment when we awake, rub our eyes, and see things at last as God has seen them all along.  (Ken Gire)

19. There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.  (Hannah More)

20. The Indians have a wonderful saying:  “When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced.  Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries, and you rejoice.”