47 Quotes About Tomb

The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life. Sarah Ash

What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely to believe that it’s a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my own script. Rather, I think it’s fear that I’m too inadequate to follow God’s. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sooner or later I will realize that the very things I most desperately need are the very things I am unable to give myself. Therefore, I will either be left despising the fact that I am doomed to live out a life that is perpetually empty, or I will realize that an empty tomb is the single thing that will eternally fill me. Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are an incalculable number of things within me that I frantically wish to be emptied of, and despite my most earnest efforts to remove them, they remain. And it is Easter that reminds me that God empties out tombs. Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am pressed to admit that I don’t have the capacity to understand the bloodied horrors of a cross and the wild exhilaration of an empty tomb. But at the point that I think I completely understand God, I have at that very point humanized Him and in that very action I have lost Him. Therefore, I much prefer to simply marvel. Craig D. Lounsbrough

My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does this not somehow evidence both the reality of and need for God? Craig D. Lounsbrough

Reasonably speaking, we can see the cross as entirely possible. But in considering Easter, we see an empty tomb as entirely impossible. And is it possible that God had to do the impossible to finally get our attention? Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do I dare believe such an absurdly outrageous story that a man would die, lay lifeless in some tomb for three days and then somehow live again? Yet, if I dare to consider it, is that not exactly what I so desperately desire for this lifeless life of mine? And is Easter God’s tenderly outrageous way of telling me that that is exactly what I can have? Craig D. Lounsbrough

My sin murdered Him. And out of this self-loathing shame borne of the understanding that I could perpetrate such a heinous act, I am barely able to raise my head sufficiently to ask what crazed insanity would prompt Jesus to walk out of an empty tomb for the single purpose of pursuing a decaying soul that murdered Him? And I would be wise to consider that the question itself is asked only because I have yet to touch the barest periphery of God’s love despite the fact that because of an empty tomb it stands right in front of me. Craig D. Lounsbrough

My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it. Unknown

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE NAKED HEARTFrom womb to tomb, There came and went -Only you. Poor or rich, You will die with Only you. All the wealth you harvest In the living, Will go to others when you are dead. But the true test of a lion of God -Is to keep giving with your own hands, Before you rest in your final bed. Suzy Kassem

Does one love a statue?" she demanded. "Shall I caress a picture? Shall I rain tears or kisses over the mere semblance of a life that does not live, shall I fondle hands that never return my clasp? Love! Love is in my heart -yes! like a shut-up fire in a tomb, but you hold the key, and the flame dies for want of air. Marie Corelli

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not e Alexander The Great

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience. Michael Bassey Johnson

The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away. Anthony Liccione

Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives. Israelmore Ayivor

Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave Bangambiki Habyarimana

Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now! Israelmore Ayivor

You are a cool cemetery. You have the sinner’s grave You have the saint’s earthcolliding You have all the bedsnarrow as a knife;as if a rally of tombstones to defend death. But you can’t really postponethe inauguration of my burial, can you? From the poem - Few Words to Cemetery Munia Khan

Music helps to forget This forsaken tomb, That is my abode Cellars down Far below Under the ground, ... E.a. Bucchianeri

Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb. Jazz Feylynn

But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets. H.P. Lovecraft

Before an empty tomb, we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave. Bruce R. McConkie

Jesus' tomb wasn't His grave, but our door. Patricia Raybon

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave. Washington Irving

A tomb is a vault, a vault is a home, ” Mr. Sadlot said casually sniffing the flower in his lapel. “That’s where the deceased chose to reside and that is where he will be placed.” Kekaju and the Hidden Swamp Robert W Sweeting

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. Margaret Cavendish

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. James Beattie