This is the true union of spirit and love by which a man is made compliant to all the impulses of the supreme and eternal will, so that he becomes by grace what God is by nature…What is more, there can be no greater happiness than to place one’s all in him who lacks nothing.
–Saint Albert the Great (c. 1206-1280)
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
–John Donne (1572-1631)
It is folly not to think of death. It is greater folly to think of it, and not prepare for it.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all pass by. Christian! So does our life. . .I was an infant, and that time has gone. I was an adolescent, and that too has passed. I was a young man, and that too is far behind me. The strong and mature man that I was is no more. My hair turns white, I succumb to age, but that too passes; I approach the end and will go the way of all flesh. I was born in order to die. I die that I may live. Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom!
–Saint Tikhon (1724-1783)
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
–Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1890-1944)
Death is nothing else but going home to God the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
