life on planet earth on Life and Death

In the north of England, there's a beautiful garden. It's full of delicate wildflowers, extravagant blossoms, verdant climbing vines, and tumbling water features. Like so many gems of English ...

To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we...

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to break down, and...

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrises.

Intellectually we all know that we will die, but we do not really know it in the sense that the knowledge becomes a part of us. We do not really know it in the sense of living as though it were true. ...

Once we’ve learned to see the shadow [of death], we’ll be able to apply the light of Christ.

In his excellent study of the famous Biblical passage on shepherds, ( The Good Shepherd: A Thousand Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament ) , scholar Ken Bailey provides context to the 23...

My deepest belief is that to live as if we’re dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things..

"What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup."

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath. (1897)

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.