The Value of Life: A Reflection on Biblical and Historical Quotes

1. Does Your Life Have Value Doesn't It?? Or

2. Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.”

3. Genesis 1:26 “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.’”

4. Psalm 139:15,16 “My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in your book they all are written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.”

5. Psalm 139:14 “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.”

6. Ephesians 5:16 “redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”

7. Romans 13:11,12 “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.”

8. Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope.”

9. Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

10. Cardinal Borgia “I have provided in the course of my life for everything except death, and now, alas, I am to die unprepared.”

11. Elizabeth the First “All my possessions for one moment of time.”

12. Kurt Cobain (suicide note) “Frances and Courtney, I’ll be at your altar. Please keep going Courtney, for Frances. For her life will be so much happier without me. I love you. I love you.”

13. Thomas Hobbs “I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”

14. Prince Henry of Wales “Tie a rope round my body, pull me out of bed, and lay me in ashes, that I may die with repentant prayers to an offended God. O, I in vain wish for that time I lost with you and others in vain recreations.”

15. Socrates “All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.”

16. Tony Hancock(British Comedian) “Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That’s the bitterest blow of all.”

17. Phillip IIIKing of France “What an account I shall have to give to God! How I should like to live otherwise than I have lived.”

18. Aldus Huxley(humanist) “It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try and be a little kinder.’”

19. Karl Marx “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”

20. Napoleon “I marvel that where the ambitious dreams of myself and of Alexander and of Caesar should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant—Jesus--should be able to stretch His hands across centuries, and control the destinies of men and nations.”

21. Diana (Spencer)Princess of Wales “My God. What’s happened?” (per police files)

22. James Dean “My fun days are over.”

23. Timothy McVeigh(Invictus) “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.”

24. Jonathan Edwards “Trust in God and you shall have nothing to fear.”

25. Patrick Henry “Doctor, I wish you to observe how real and beneficial the religion of Christ is to a man about to die…” In his will he wrote: “This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ which will give them one which will make them rich indeed.”

26. D. L. Moody “I see earth receding; heaven is opening. God is calling me.”

27. William Shakespeare “I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Savior, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth, whereof it was made.”

28. John Milton(British Poet) “Death is the great key that opens the palace of Eternity.”

29. Daniel Webster (just before his death): “The great mystery is Jesus Christ—the gospel. What would the condition of any of us be if we had not the hope of immortality?…Thank God, the gospel of Jesus Christ brought life and immortality to light.” His last words were: “I still live.”

30. Charles Dickens “I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try and guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament.”

31. Andrew Jackson “My dear children, do not grieve for me…I am my God’s. I belong to Him. I go but a short time before you, and …I hope and trust to meet you all in heaven.”

32. Jesus “It is finished! Father, into Your hands I commend My Spirit.”

33. Galatians 6:5-10 “For each one shall bear his own load. Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”

34. “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially the household of faith.”

35. 2 Corinthians 5:8-10 “We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”

36. 1 Corinthians 3:11-15 “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become manifest; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.”

37. “If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.”

38. Revelation 22:12,13 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”

39. Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

40. IF IT DOESN'T MATTER THE DAY YOU DIE, IT DOESN'T MATTER!!

41. MY FRIEND My friend, I stand in judgment now, And feel that you’re to blame somehow. On Earth I walked with you day by day, And never did you point the way. You knew the Lord in truth and glory, But never did you tell the story. My knowledge then was very dim; You could have led me safe to Him.

42. Though we lived together here on Earth You never told me of the second birth. And now I stand this day condemned, Because you failed to mention Him. You taught me many things that’s true; I called you “friend” and trusted you. But I learn now that it’s too late, And you could have kept me from this fate.

43. We walked by day and talked by night, And yet you showed me not the light. You let me live, and love, and die, You knew I’d never live on high. Yes, I called you “friend” in life, And trusted you through joy and strife, And, yet, on coming to this dreadful end I cannot, now, call you “my friend.”

44. IF IT DOESN'T MATTER THE DAY YOU DIE, IT DOESN'T MATTER!!