Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Lord, help my poor soul.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Posture for combat is so vital.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‚O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.‘ And God granted it.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

An unused life is an early death.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.