Death – Quote Catch

Ether 9: 34…When people are to the point of death is when they begin to repent and cry unto the Lord.
Romans 2:12…If you sin without law, then you’ll perish without the law. If you sin with the law, you’ll perish with the law.
Alma 30:47…It is better that one soul should be lost than many souls being brought to destruction.
Alma 5:27…Can you say if you were called to die at this time that you’ve been sufficiently humble?
Alma 30: 10…Death penalty
Alma 28: 14…Sorrow is brought because of death and destruction among men while joy is brought because of the light of Christ unto life
Alma 28: 11-12…Death always brings mourning. Even more so when someone dies unworthily. It can bring rejoicing and hope for those who’ve died worthily.
Alma 28: 5-6…When a loved one dies it becomes a time of (1) Solemnity (2) Much fasting (3) Prayer
Alma 11:42…Christ’s death shall loose the bands of temporal death.
Alma 12: 16…Those that die in their sins (at their temporal death) will suffer the second death (spiritual death)
Alma 20:17…It is better for one who has repented of his sins to die than one who has not repented because the latter won’t be saved.
Alma 14: 8…Stand for what is right even if it means death
Alma 24: 21…Praying to the Lord can provide comfort and courage in time of death
Alma 24: 19…When we’re brought to believe and know the truth we should be firm, and suffer death rather than commit a sin
Revelations 21: 8…Those that will suffer the 2nd death (lake of fire and brimstone) are the (1) Fearful (2) Unbelieving (3) Abominable (4) Murderers (5) Whoremongers (6) Sorcerers (7) Idolaters (8) Liars
Mosiah 17: 20…Abinadi sealed the truthfulness of his words with his death
Mosiah 16:10…All will die and stand before the bar of God to be judged according to works -Good or Bad
Mosiah 16: 8…The sting of death has been swallowed up in Christ
Mosiah 15: 20…The Son will break the bands of death and brings to pass the resurrection of the dead
Mosiah 13: 6…No matter what the circumstances (even death), speak with power & authority
Alma 28:5-6,12…How to handle death – fast and pray
D&C 42:44-46…To Die is the Lord’s will (After the laying on of hands)
Romans 14:8… To Die is the Lord’s will (After the laying on of hands)
D&C 63:49… To Die is the Lord’s will (After the laying on of hands)
Revelations 14:13… To Die is the Lord’s will (After the laying on of hands)
Alma 40:7, 11-14…The State in between death and resurrection
Alma 56:11…Die in defense of country – happy
Alma 62:11…Death penalty
Alma 1:13-14, 18…Death penalty
Helaman 1:18… Death penalty
D&C 101:36…Don’t fear death
Ether 15:34…How we die doesn’t matter, it’s where we’ll be after
Alma 11:42-45…Only die once
D&C 45:2…Don’t know when die
Moroni 1:2-5…Die for Christ
1 Nephi 4:13…Better for one man to die rather than a whole nation
1 Nephi 18:17…Parents can die for grief caused by children
2 Nephi 10:25…Christ saves us from physical and spiritual death
2 Nephi 26:7…God is just. Even when people are killed
Jacob 3:11…Sinners – wake up from your deep sleep or suffer 2nd death
Mosiah 2:33…Those that die following the Bad Spirit receive eternal punishment
Mosiah 2:30-39…After dying in sins your chest fills with guilt, pain and anguish because of committed sins and it makes you want to leave the Lord’s presence. This is the inextinguishable fire (Hell)
Of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments (Jeffrey R. Holland) “Setting aside sins against the Holy Ghost as a special category unto themselves, it is LDS doctrine that sexual transgression is second only to murder in the Lord’s list of life’s most serious sins. By assigning such rank to a physical appetite so conspicuously evident in all of us, what is God trying to tell us about its place in His plan for all men and women in mortality? I submit to you He is doing precisely that–commenting about the very plan of life itself. Clearly God’s greatest concerns regarding mortality are how one gets into this world and how one gets out of it. These two most important issues in our very personal and carefully supervised progress are the two issues that He as our Creator, Father, and Guide wishes most to reserve to Himself. These are the two matters that He has repeatedly told us He wants us never to take illegally, illicitly, unfaithfully, without sanction.”
Of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments (Jeffrey R. Holland) “What would in the case of taking life bring absolute horror and demand grim justice, in the case of giving life brings dirty jokes, four-letter language, and wholesale voyeurism in movies, on television, over the internet, and almost everywhere else we turn.”
“The strength of your commitment is measured by your willingness to give your very lives for that in which you believe.” (Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, May 2003, 80)
“It’s not so much what happens to us but how we deal with what happens to us.” (James E. Faust, Ensign, Nov. 2004, 20)
“Psychologists say it is not death we fear so much. It is insignificance. The idea that, at the end of the day, our lives didn’t amount to all that much. That we didn’t’ set ripples in motion in the lives of our families, friends, and neighbors that would carry our accomplishments and our values on for generations.” Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 6
“Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Ernest Becker said, “This is mankind’s age-old dilemma; in death what man fears isn’t extinction, but extinction without significance. Man wants to know that somehow his life has counted, that he’s left a trace that has meaning. Its effects must remain alive in eternity in some way.”” Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 149
“Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Harlan Sanders once quipped, ‘You ever see a hearse towing a U-Haul trailer? What’s the point of being the richest man in the graveyard- you can’t do any business from there!” Beating the Midas Curse, by Perry L. Cochell and Rodney C. Zeeb, Page 99
“By Victor Davis Hanson Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one’s responsibilities and to be willing to make sacrifices for one’s country—as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, “If the country is good enough to live in, it’s good enough to fight for.” With privilege goes responsibility.” With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (E.B. Sledge)- Page 1
“You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary that you be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God. And God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heartstrings and if you cannot stand it, you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.” (John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, 24:197)
“Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar his face is to us.” (Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, Dec. 1988, 6)
“We wish to be remembered. Willing to die, we are not willing to be forgotten.” (Joshua Lawrence Chamberlaine, Memorial Day Address, 1884)
“If an earlier end [to life] should happen to come…, that is more reason to do things right.” (Boyd K. Packer, Ensign, May 1989, 59)
… And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my Redeemer; for I know that in him I shall rest. And I rejoice in the day when my mortal shall put on immortality, and shall stand before him; then shall I see his face with pleasure, and he will say unto me: Come unto me, ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father. Amen.
“Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It’s about mastering the art of letting go.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 309
“Obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature heart attacks in the United States. Imagine that—overeating is worse for you than smoking a pack a day. We’ve forced the smokers out of our restaurants and onto the sidewalk to light up, and yet you can still order an appetizer off the menu that delivers a day’s worth of calories and enough grease to turn your colon into a Roman candle. Go figure.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker) Page xii
“A Canadian study of more than 8,000 people found that over 13 years, the people with the weakest abdominal muscles had a death rate more than twice as high as those with the strongest midsections.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker). Page13
“The willingness to live with the knowledge of our inevitable death enables us to face, more and more, both the freedom and responsibility that life offers.” Wealth in Families Third Edition (Charles W. Collier) Page 92
“Janice and Larry ultimately remain firm in their belief that Adam’s death, like his life, is part of God’s plan. “We were faced with some tough decisions,” says Larry. “Are we going to abandon our faith or apply our faith? Allow our grief to make us bitter, or allow God to use that grief to make us better? How are we going to live so that our Lord and Adam are honored by our lives while we wait to join them in heaven?”Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown (Blehm, Eric) page 245
“Then he went on to tell me that he had spent a year pondering the question “How does this happen to a man like Adam?” He had ultimately concluded that the trials and tribulations of Adam’s life were “grooming for a future job. I think that the Lord himself had one of his right-hand men—like an angel or however it works in heaven—set to retire and Adam got called up to fill his place.”Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown (Blehm, Eric) page 247
“The aging process is also a gift from God, as is death. The eventual death of your mortal body is essential to God’s great plan of happiness. Why? Because death will allow your spirit to return home to Him. From an eternal perspective, death is only premature for those who are not prepared to meet God.” Russell M. Nelson, October 2013 General Conference
“Later the Prophet said feelingly, but calmly and courageously, “I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am as calm as a summer’s morning. I have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward all men. If they take my life I shall die an innocent man, and my blood shall cry from the ground for vengeance, and it shall be said of me, ‘He was murdered in cold blood’” History of the Church, 6:555. 21 Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Ezra Taft Benson, (2014), 102–13
Mosiah 2:38 -39… 38 Therefore if that man repenteth not, and remaineth and dieth an enemy to God, the demands of divine justice do awaken his immortal soul to a lively sense of his own guilt, which doth cause him to shrink from the presence of the Lord, and doth fill his breast with guilt, and pain, and anguish, which is like an unquenchable fire, whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever. 39 And now I say unto you, that mercy hath no claim on that man; therefore his final doom is to endure a never-ending torment.
“After I asked our whole family to pray and fast for gunner last month, I was inspired to read the book of Enos. It gave me great hope for Gunner’s future. After my sweet boy passed…The only thing I felt to do was to reread the book of Enos again for clarity and comfort. Reading it for the second time opened my eyes up to a whole new meaning…these are the verses that stick out to my mind again today after reading it for the fourth time… they are comforting me now yet also make me cry the most. 2 And I will tell you of the wrestle which I had before God before I received a remission of my sins. 3 Behold, I went to hunt beasts in the forests; and the words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep into my heart. 4 And my soul hungered, and I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own soul, and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens. 5 And there came a voice unto me, saying: Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed. 6 And I, Enos, knew that God could not lie; wherefore, my guilt was swept away. 7 And I said: Lord, how is it done? 8 And he said unto me: Because of thy faith in Christ, whom thou hast never before heard nor seen. And many years pass away before he shall manifest himself in the flesh; wherefore, go to, thy faith hath made thee whole. 26 And I saw that I must soon go down to my grave, having been wrought upon by the power of God that I must preach and prophesy unto this people, and declare the word according to the truth which is in Christ. And I have declared it in all my days, and have rejoiced in it above that of the world. 27 And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my Redeemer; for I know that in him I shall rest. And I rejoice in the day when my mortal shall put on immortality, and shall stand before him; then shall I see his face with pleasure, and he will say unto me: Come unto me, ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father.” @ San Clemente, California. Trish Wilhite post to Facebook after the passing of her 20-year-old son, Gunner: 04/20/2017
“You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary that you be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God. And God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heartstrings and if you cannot stand it, you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.” John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, 24:197
Enos 1: 27… And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my Redeemer; for I know that in him I shall rest. And I rejoice in the day when my mortal shall put on immortality, and shall stand before him; then shall I see his face with pleasure, and he will say unto me: Come unto me, ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father. Amen.
29 of Abril, 1995 – Saturday (10 months as a missionary). Quito Ecuador…. “Today was a day I soon won’t forget. I got up today with a weird feeling. Almost the same as yesterday. I felt a little weird inside & spiritually…..confused. I just didn’t feel complete as a missionary or like something was going to happen! My thoughts were all over the place, and I had a feeling to cry. It was as if something really big was going to happen. I prayed for strength, to have much more of the Spirit, to be a better missionary. I promised I’d quit doing the little sins & that I’d control my thoughts. Elder Hanks too felt really unusual. Well, we left the house to catch a bus. Elder Pickrell & Fernandez told us that a boy had been hit by a car. Well, we saw the crowd gathered and I had a feeling that this was what the Lord wanted me to see. To wake me up. Well, Elder Hanks & I looked & there was a boy, with a newspaper over his body laying down. All you could see was blood and his brain 5 feet away. Needless to today I was big-time shook up and started to think of life, the plan of salvation, death, my family, and I started to evaluate my life. I need to make a lot of changes. Life is so fragile. It helped me realize how close each & every one of us is close to death. I re-evaluated my way of living & have decided to make a few changes. I know that the Lord has something big time prepared for me. I think he wants me to shape up so that I can be a better instrument in His hands. I don’t know exactly what he wants me to do, but he sure is preparing me to find out. He’s humbling me and is helping me to remember Him. I pray I’m worthy for whatever is going to happen, and ready.” – Clinton Brown Missionary Journal
“Just as there were parents to greet a newborn on earth, the scriptures teach that caring family members greet the spirits in paradise and assist them in the adjustments to a new life” Merrill J. Bateman, CR May 1995 p.13
“No righteous man is ever taken before his time.” Joseph Fielding Smith, the funeral of Richard L. Evans
“We do not control what I call the great transfer board in the sky. The inconveniences that are sometimes associated with a release from our labors here are necessary in order to accelerate the work there. Heavenly Father can’t do His work with ten times more people there than we have on this planet, except he will on occasion take some of the very best sisters and brothers. The conditions of termination here, painful though they are, are a part of the conditions of acceleration there. Thus we are back to faith in the timing of God, and to be able to say not only ‘Thy will be done’…. But also ‘Thy timing be done’, even when we don’t fully understand it.” Neal Maxwell, Address to CES Religious Educators, Salt Lake Tabernacle Feb 2, 2001.
“We are not going to die. We are deathless beings. We lived before we came into this world, and we shall live after we go out of it. What we call death is not worthy of the name. There is no death for the righteous. Christ died to destroy death. The change called death is but a temporary separation of the spirit from the body. None of our departed ones are dead. They have but gone before. This so-called death, when properly understood, is simply going back home.” Orson F Whitney, Improvement Era, May 1916, pp 608-9
“And it has been said that the most important event in life is death. We live to die and we die to live. Death is kind of a graduation day for life.” Sterling W. Sill, To Die Well, Ensign November 1976
“Phenomenal Clarity of vision people gain at the end of their lives (same top 5 regrets people expressed in the last 12 weeks of life)
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. (Every male patient) Felt they missed their children’s youth & partner’s companionship.
3. I wish I’d have the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be Happier. Realized happiness was a choice
“I have a conviction… that when we pass through the veil of death, all those impediments and challenges and crosses that were beyond our power to control-abuse, neglect, immoral environment, weighty traditions, private temptations and inclinations that yielded to faith, and so forth-will be torn away like a film, and perfect peace will prevail in our hearts.” Voices of Hope, Robert L. Millet
“As Joseph spoke, William wrote down as much of the sermon as he could in his diary. He was drawn to the profound truths Joseph shared and hungered to know more. William recorded Joseph’s teaching that the knowledge and intelligence people acquired in life rose with them in the Resurrection. If a person gains more knowledge in this life, through his diligence and obedience, than another. Joseph explained, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come.” History, Saints 1:40, United in an Everlasting Covenant
“The risen Lord spoke to Mary, and she replied. He was not an apparition. This was not imagination. He was real, as real as He had been in mortal life. He did not permit her to touch Him. He had not yet ascended to His Father in Heaven. That would happen shortly. What a reunion it must have been, to be embraced by the Father, who loved Him and who also must have wept for Him during His hours of agony. He would appear to two men on the road to Emmaus. He would converse with them and eat with them. He would meet with His Apostles behind closed doors and teach them. Thomas was not present on the first occasion. On the second occasion, the Lord invited him to feel of His hands and His side. In utter wonder he exclaimed: My Lord and my God (John 20:28). He spoke with 500 at [another] time. And there is another witness. This biblical companion, the Book of Mormon, testifies that He appeared not only to those of the Old World but also to those of the New. For had He not at one time declared, Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd? (John 10:16).” Manual, Teachings of the President of the Church: Gordon B Hinkley, Chapter 8, We Look to Christ
April 25, 1996 – Thursday – Tena, Ecuador…”Tonight Elder Flores told us about his conversion & his Dad’s death. He said that he was scared, sad & worried the the whole trip to Guayaquil, and then when he saw his Dad in the coffin that an incredible peaceful feeling came over him.” – Clinton Brown Missionary Journal