C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

To “die daily” is the business of Christians. It is greatly wise to talk with our last hours, to make ourselves familiar with the grave. Our venerable forefathers had a queer habit of placing on the dressing-table a death’s head, as a memento mori— either a real skull, or else an ornament fashioned in the form of it—to remind them of their end; yet, so far as I can gather, they were happy men and women, and none the less so because they familiarised themselves with death. A genuine Puritan, perhaps, never lived a day without considering the time when he should put off the garments of clay, and enter into rest; and these were the happiest and holiest of people, while this thoughtless generation, which banishes the thought of dying, is wretched amid all its hollow pretence of mirth. 764.439 Those who die daily will die easily. Those who make themselves familiar with the tomb will find it transfigured into a bed: the charnel will become a couch. 1922.533 The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom. The apostle said, “I die daily.” When you have got into the habit of daily dying, it will come easy for you to die for the last time. 2205.286 It would be well if we were all so familiar with death that we could say as one old saint did, “Dying? Why, I have been dying daily for the last twenty years, so I am not afraid to die now;” or, as another said, “I dip my foot in Jordan’s stream every morning before I take my breakfast, so I shall not be afraid to go down into the stream whenever my Lord bids me enter it.” May that be your experience and mine, beloved, and then we shall have no fear of death. 3287.45