When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die. —Jim Elliot More about this quote Tags: time death responsibility. peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Jim Elliot Philip James Elliot (October 8, 1927 – January 8, 1956) was an American Christian missionary and one of five people killed during Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador.
More quotations from Jim Elliot Wherever you are - be all there. —Jim Elliot More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wherever you are - be all there. —Jim Elliot More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “death” As she lay dying, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour — the official chief mistress of Louis XV, King of France — summoned her last strength and called to God, "Wait a second," as she dabbed her cheeks with rouge. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: beauty death vanity royalty France Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Wouldn't it be weird if the only way people could die was that their heads suddenly exploded without warning? If there was simply no other cause of death? One day you'd be sitting there having a hot chocolate, and suddenly your head would explode. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor death explosions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so —Marcel Proust More about this quote Tags: time future perception death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could. —Carrie Fisher More about this quote Tags: friends death darkness passage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: religion death animals theology funerals ceremony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As she lay dying, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour — the official chief mistress of Louis XV, King of France — summoned her last strength and called to God, "Wait a second," as she dabbed her cheeks with rouge. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: beauty death vanity royalty France Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wouldn't it be weird if the only way people could die was that their heads suddenly exploded without warning? If there was simply no other cause of death? One day you'd be sitting there having a hot chocolate, and suddenly your head would explode. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor death explosions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so —Marcel Proust More about this quote Tags: time future perception death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could. —Carrie Fisher More about this quote Tags: friends death darkness passage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: religion death animals theology funerals ceremony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email