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Where would we be without them?

When It's All Said and Done

Some of the most insightful words are spoken by those closest to death.  I'm not being morbid, I'm making an observation.  When you're looking back over your life, you'll be in the wisest state of mind ever possible this side of eternity.  I am most touched by the following quotes given by men who were not saved, because it appears that as they are dying, the truth is finally dawning on them.  However, there are many quotes below by men who were saved and those are especially encouraging.  Live your life with a view toward eternity!


I think I'll sleep now. -George Washington Carver


I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world. Remember! -Charles I, King of England


I have tried so hard to do right. -Grover Cleveland


It's very beautiful over there. -Thomas Jefferson


This is absurd! This is absurd! -Sigmund Freud
Note: He is also reported to have said “The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.”


 I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -Nathan Hale


Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees. -Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson


Solely by the merits of Jesus Christ, Our Saviour. -Johannes Kepler


The taste of death is upon my lips…I feel something, that is not of this earth. -Mozart


Take me home. I was born in the South and I wish to die and be buried in the South. -Booker T. Washington


I am ready. -Woodrow Wilson


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Jim Elliot Quotes

Some of my favorite quotes in the whole world were spoken by Jim Elliot.  His resolve to not let anything get in the way of his passion for Christ is inspirational.  Here are eleven of his quotes that I found on ChristianQuotes.org.  If you know of any other Jim Elliot quotes that aren't listed on this website, please leave a comment!

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.


He who knows best knows how little he knows. 


I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. 


I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. 


I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. 


In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 


It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. 

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. 

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. 

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. 

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. 

17 Amazing Quotes

Helping One Another


1. "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else."  -Charles Dickens


Contentment


2.  "All our discontents about what we want appear to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."  -Daniel Defoe


3.  "All our discontents about what we want appear to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."  -Martin Luther


4.  "The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right."  -Unknown


Things


5.  "I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ." -David Livingstone


6.  "I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."  -Martin Luther


Sold Out for Christ


7.  "My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece."  -St. Ignatius of Antioch


8.  "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."  -Jim Elliot


Encouragement


9.  "It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent."  -Jeremy Taylor


Forgiveness


10.  "He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass."  -George Herbert


Friends


11.  "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and the worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back."  -Charles Kingsley


Complete in Christ


12.  "None but God can satisfy the longing of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for Him, He only can fill it."  -Richard Trench


Hard Times


13.  "You are never to complain of your birth, your training, your employments, your hardships; never to fancy that you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned you. God understands His own plan, and He knows what you want a great deal better than you do. The very things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God's opportunities. Bring down your soul, or rather, bring it up to receive God's will and do His work, in your lot, in your sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against your temptations, and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good, but really consistent with it."  -Horace Bushnell


Relationship with God


14.  "He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day."  -John Bunyan


Pride


15.  "You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough."  -William Law


The Tongue


16.  "One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, 'Let me see your tongue.' A spiritual advisor might often do the same."  -Nehemiah Adams


17.  "When I want to speak let me think first. Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If not, let it be left unsaid."  Maltbie Davenport Babcock




Note:  All quotes are from Christian Quotes.