We're born spiritually dead, and I'm calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, don't wait until later to live the way you were created.
Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Life without an ideal is spiritual death.
The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.
Die before you die, there is no chance after.
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
An evil life is a kind of death.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Death from sin no power can separate.
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.
It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.
Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.
