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    Epicurus
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    Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?"

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    Stanley Hauerwas
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    We live in a death-denying world that seems determined to develop technologies that will enable us to get out of life alive. Yet the more we strive to be free of death the more we are shaped by the de...

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    George MacDonald
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    How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

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    Timothy R. Jennings
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    Mark 5:36, Psalm 34:4, Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 9:22, Philippians 4:6-7, Job 3:25
    Medical literature is replete with case reports of patients dying, not from actual illness, but from believing they were sick, from the fear they were going to die.

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    John Chrysostom
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    Let no one grieve at his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave. Let no one fear death, for...

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    Robert Farrar Capon
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    Genesis 22:1-14, Ezekiel 37:1-14 , Job 1:20-22, John 12:24, Romans 6:3-5, Psalm 30:5
    Death is not an eventuality that with luck, waits for another day. It is today’s cup from which God now insists you drink. If you think that somehow you can choose today not to carry the deaths of you...

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    William Stringfellow
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    Luke 23:39-43, Romans 4:18-21, Luke 15:11-32, Lamentations 3:22-24, Romans 8:24-25
    Hope is reliance upon grace in the face of death: the issue is that of receiving life as a gift, not as a reward and not as a punishment; hope is living constantly, patiently, expectantly, resiliently...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living - that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage ...

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    Skye Jethani
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    Fear and control are the basis for all human religions. From this common beginning the paths diverge dramatically, splinter, multiply, and finally terminate in different places. But each one is an att...

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    Jerry Seinfeld
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    I saw a study that said speaking in front of a crowd is considered the number one fear of the average person. Number two was death. This means to the average person, if you have to be at a funeral, yo...

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    John Calvin
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    Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. When we see those who previously stood firm and...

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    Max Lucado
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    We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

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    Martin Luther
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    There is a righteousness which Paul calls “the righteousness of faith.” God imputes it to us apart from our works. . . . [Now] though I am a sinner in myself, with regard to the moral law, . . . yet i...

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    William Shakespeare
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    Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a ...

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    Steve Jobs
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    Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear o...

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    The virtue of courage is about the fear of dangers of death.

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    Thomas Merton
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    My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself. And the fact that I think I am following your...

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    French Proverb
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    Fear and restlessness kill more than do illnesses.

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    Matthew McCullough
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    Death is not ok. By avoiding the subject of death, we act like that’s not true. And we shrink down the scale of Jesus’s victory to fit the world we live in now.

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    Alexander Schmemann
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    1 Corinthians 15:56, Romans 5:12
    Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56) - the rejection by man of the only true life given to him by G...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deat...

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    R. Kent Hughes
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    Luke 12:32-40, Romans 13:11-14, Matthew 24:36-44, Luke 21:25-28, John 5:28-29, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Revelation 1:7
    Brothers and sisters, the coming of Christ is near. The ultimate epiphany is just around the corner. If we think otherwise, we tragically impoverish our souls. Most Christians think little of Christ’s...

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    Karl Barth
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    1 Peter 1:3, Luke 24:1-12, Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28:1-10, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55
    The Easter message tells us that our enemies—sin, the curse, and death—are beaten. Ultimately they can longer start mischief. They still behave as though the game were not decided, the battle not foug...

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    Catherine Booth
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    Psalm 18:16-19, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Isaiah 43:2
    The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

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    Blaise Pascal
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    There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines...

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

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    Ann Voskamp
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    All fear is but the notion that God’s love ends.

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    Shelly Miller
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    The fear of uncertainty is rooted in this belief: God won’t meet me in the way I am desperate for him to show up. And our greatest certitude is this: God is already in the room.

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    Shelly Miller
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    The fear of uncertainty is rooted in this belief: God won’t meet me in the way I am desperate for him to show up. And our greatest certitude is this: God is already in the room.

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    Martin Luther
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    Even in the best of health we should have death always before our eyes [so that] we will not expect to remain on this earth forever, but will have one foot in the air, so to speak.
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