It is the very joy of this earthly life, to think that it will come to an end. The best moment of a Christian's life is his last one, for then he is nearest Heaven.
The only people for whom I have felt any envy have been dying Christians. It is not a loss to die; it is a lasting, perpetual gain.
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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Ecclesiastes 7:1 … A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Job 7:16 … I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Philippians 1:21 ... For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:23 … For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:❤
