Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
Interpretation
Hope for a better afterlife should outweigh the fear of dying.
This quote suggests that one should place greater emphasis on the hope of an afterlife, or heavenly fulfillment, rather than being paralyzed by the fear of death. It encourages a mindset where the anticipation of what is to come in a spiritual sense can provide comfort and bravery in the face of mortality.
In practice
During a speech at a memorial service to comfort those grieving.
God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover.
Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
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