Death is not…
We all now live and walk in the shadow of death, for death is not across the seas, but is right behind each of us.
— Saint Anthony of Egypt (c. 251-356)
Death can be…
Death can be very beautiful – like a wedding – if we make it so.
— Blessed Solanus Casey (1870-1957)
Remember your end…
Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
— Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
When we die…
When we die we shall come to God knowing ourselves clearly having gone wholly. We shall be enfolded in God for ever, seeing him truly, feeling him fully, hearing him spiritually, smelling him delectably, and tasting him sweetly.
— Saint Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
Death – gate of life…
Death is the gate of life.
— Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
The day of our homecoming…
We ought never to forget, beloved, that we have renounced the world. We are living here now as aliens and only for a time. When the day of our homecoming puts an end to our exile, frees us from the bonds of the world, and restores us to paradise and to a kingdom, we should welcome it. What man, stationed in a foreign land, would not want to return to his own country as soon as possible? Well, we look upon paradise as our country, and a great crowd of our loved ones awaits us there, a countless throng of parents, brothers and children longs for us to join them.
–Saint Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200-258)
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