Death, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Let’s continue to be strenuous in pursuing virtue. Let’s not grow tired of seeking it, for our Lord has become a guide for us and for every person who has a desire for the virtues. And so that it might not be tedious for us, St. Paul became our example when he said, “I die daily” (see 1 Cor 15:31). Now, if we were to think each day that we had to die that day, we would never sin at all. This is the explanation of Paul’s saying. If in the morning we imagined that we would never last until evening, and if at evening we thought that we would never see morning, we would never sin.
–Saint Athanasius the Great (c. 296-373)
Death, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Act as if every day were the last of you life, and each action the last you perform.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Death, Page: Quotes, Philip Neri (1515-1595), Quote Author, Quote Topic
The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Death, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
I pray you for the love of Jesus Christ to keep three things in mind, and they are: the hour of death, from which no one can escape; the pains of Hell; the glory and blessedness of Paradise.
–Saint John of God (1495-1550)
Death, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
The day of my death will be the most beautiful day of my life.
–Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901–1925)
Death, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
And thus this death is a journey for everyone. You must always be journeying: from decay to incorruptibility, from mortality to immortality, from turbulence to peace. Do not be alarmed by the word ‘death’ but rejoice at the good that the journey will bring. For what is death except the burial of vice and the raising up of virtue?
–Saint Ambrose of Milan (339-397)
