“I can as easily die as close my eyes or turn my head in sleep.” -- James Janeway
“The sun is setting; mine is rising. I go from this bed to a crown. Farewell.” -- S. B. Bangs
“Oh! I tell you a man prays straight to the mark when he has a cyclone above him, an ocean beneath him, and eternity so close to him that he can feel its breath on his cheek.” -- T. Dewitt Talmage
“I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.” -- Augustus Toplady, author of the hymn “Rock of Ages” (he was 38 years old when he died)
“My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed,” said General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson in life. Before he died on May 10, 1863, he said, “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.”
“I see the value of the religion of the cross. It is a religion for a dying sinner. It is all the most guilty and the most wretched can desire. Yes, I taste its sweetness and enjoy its fulness, with all the gloom of a death-bed before me; and far rather would I be the poor, emaciated and emaciating creature that I am, than be an emperor with every earthly good about him, but without a God.” -- Samuel Peirce
“I have pain,—there is no arguing against sense,—but I have peace.” -- Richard Baxter
“It was a new song then; it has been new all along the journey; but now it is sweeter than ever; and very soon I shall strike in glory many notes higher unto him that loved me.” -- Benjamin Harvey
“Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.” -- Stephen, Acts 7:60
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