“I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.”

“I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.”

“I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.”

“If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.”

“[...]not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross.”

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”