Penn: Turning from time to eternity
“The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. He that makes this his care, will find it his crown at last. And he that lives to live ever, never fears dying: nor can the means be terrible to him that heartily believes the end.
For though death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that’s recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave, being the evidence of things not seen.
And this is the comfort of the good, that the grave cannot hold them, and that they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. Death, then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live, if we cannot bear to die.”
— William Penn, 1693
Early Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania
Today’s Invitation
Love to live so that you can bear to die.
This Week’s Query
What do you believe happens after death?
Are you afraid of death? What gives you comfort?
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