Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
Interpretation
Hope for a better afterlife should outweigh the fear of dying.
This quote suggests that one should place greater emphasis on the hope of an afterlife, or heavenly fulfillment, rather than being paralyzed by the fear of death. It encourages a mindset where the anticipation of what is to come in a spiritual sense can provide comfort and bravery in the face of mortality.
In practice
During a speech at a memorial service to comfort those grieving.
God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!
And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
Cynicism means the conduit to the soul has a great kink in it, like a garden hose in which nothing flows in either direction.
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