Top 100 Died To Quotes
#1. As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
Julia Ward Howe
#2. Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.
Mark Batterson
#3. With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.
Jim Walsh
#4. Any suggestion that God has returned to his Old Testament theocratic mode of operation - as in raising up America as a uniquely favored nation - is not only unwarranted, it is a direct assault on the distinct holiness of Jesus Christ and the kingdom he died to establish.
Gregory A. Boyd
#5. Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.
Mark Twain
#6. The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.
J.C. Ryle
#7. Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.
John Piper
#8. Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.
Billy Graham
#9. That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.
Cassandra Clare
#10. Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.
Jerry Bridges
#11. Mums the Word [10w]
Chrysanthemum died to atone for our sins in the garden.
Beryl Dov
#12. A saint is a person who is reborn from his grave where he was trapped by living in himself. The time has come for all mankind to become saints, to be complete human beings. A saint is one whose self has completely died to become the living Truth.
Woo Myung
#13. On July 4th, we renew our commitment to the American Idea-the belief that all men are created equal. We read the Declaration. We tell our kids the history. We remember those who died to protect our country. And along the way, we remind ourselves of why we love it.
Paul Ryan
#14. Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.
Michael Arrington
#15. If we do not fight to protect and preserve the freedom our ancestors died to obtain for us, our children will die to get it back.
M.J. Leonard
#16. Jesus didn't die to save me from God. Jesus died to save me from myself.
Ricky Maye
#17. My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'
Kem Nunn
#18. Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins; we tend to concentrate on that merciful fact. But isn't it also true He lived to show us a lifestyle free from sin? So, wouldn't following in his footsteps be something like preventative medicine?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.
Charles Barkley
#20. Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.
Watchman Nee
#21. And what is love? My measure of it is that I should have died to spare her. Her measure is for us to be together longer. I
Harold Brodkey
#22. I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
Sylvia Plath
#23. Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.
Jerry Bridges
#24. Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'
Timothy Keller
#25. You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East.
Cindy Sheehan
#26. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
#27. Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.
William Wordsworth
#29. Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It's important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.
Joyce Meyer
#30. I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, He died to make men free.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#31. Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
J.K. Rowling
#32. My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.
Paul Robeson
#33. On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide ... Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice ... but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.
George MacDonald
#34. I want to declare to you today: Jesus died to make you holy. It is possible for you to live a life without bondage to sin.
Karen Wheaton
#35. By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#36. Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.
Jennifer Granholm
#37. The Lord calls us to love all people, including those who are enemies of the gospel and those who blaspheme. This may not be comfortable, and it may not be easy, but this is the gospel of Christ, for He loved His enemies so much that He died to save us.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#38. It struck Yuki as almost comic that humans drew lines on the globe, and on both sides of those lines raised up armies. Then they fought and died to take possession of...what? Hills. Yuki knew he had to fight, and had to win, but that didn't make war anything to be proud of.
Dean Hughes
#39. Racial and ethnic segragtion is a gospel issue! Cephas' fear and wihdrawal from fellowship across ethnic lines was "not in step with the truth of the gospel." Christ had died to tear down this wall.
John Piper
#40. Perfectionism will make you sour, mean, and judgmental, and it will rob you of the freedom Jesus died to give you.
Steve Brown
#41. We will never achieve holiness by what we do or don't do. Our only hope is to claim the holiness that Jesus died to give us: His holiness.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#42. Christ died to free us from the burden of our sin, but he never, so far as [Sister Philomena:] could see, lifted a finger to free us from our stupidity
Hilary Mantel
#43. Jesus did not die for pastors to have a well paid job. Neither was He raised on the cross just to raise our standard of living. He died to seek and to save those who are lost.
Reinhard Bonnke
#44. I don't want some mom, whose son may have recently died, to see the commander in chief playing golf.
George W. Bush
#45. Somehow, Matheus expected the night he died to be fraught with weather straight out of the Old Testament: thunderstorms and hurricane winds and floods with arks.
Amy Fecteau
#46. Jesus didn't die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin.
Paula Hendricks
#47. There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.
Cecil Frances Alexander
#48. A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
Allan Pease
#49. The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine.
Swami Vivekananda
#50. Snape is all grey. You can't make him a saint: he was vindictive & bullying. You can't make him a devil: he died to save the wizarding world.
J.K. Rowling
#51. They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
Francis Marion Crawford
#52. Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.'
Adrian Rogers
#53. He threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
Allen Ginsberg
#54. First, it is clear that Christ died to procure for us an actual reconciliation with God, and not only a power for us to be reconciled unto him; for 'when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,' Rom. v. 10.
John Owen
#55. 10For the death he died he died to sin, e once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves f dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Anonymous
#56. Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
Jim Gerlach
#57. God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.
Joel Osteen
#58. Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#59. Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.
Merle Haggard
#60. A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue.
Jennifer Crusie
#61. Over four decades of pastoral ministry - I got started early - you make mistakes. But the mistakes you most regret are the ones that obscure the gospel and hurt the people you love, by saying in effect, "You do not belong," to those for whom Christ died to provide a place of belonging.
Ken Wilson
#62. Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.
Charlaine Harris
#63. Jesus died to redeem you," she said.
"I never ast him," he muttered.
Flannery O'Connor
#64. Ultimately, no person, or no circumstance has control of you - that control belongs to you and you only. So grasp God's hand and return to the freedom that he died to give you.
Henry Cloud
#65. There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.
George Muller
#66. I am sure you know what an angel is: a soul that returns to this plane to protect the person they died to save,
Samantha Shannon
#67. Pray because Christ died to give us access to the Father. Pray because God is worthy of our praise. Pray because we need His forgiveness, cleansing, guidance, and protection. Pray because others need our prayers.
Billy Graham
#68. It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.
Brian Baird
#69. Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#70. The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.
Joyce Meyer
#71. Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.
Edward T. Welch
#72. Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
David Wilkerson
#73. Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.
John Shelton Reed
#74. Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
John Stott
#75. When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.
Heather Brooke
#76. You have DIED to doing things your own way. You can only LIVE again as you take up your cross, daily, and follow Jesus. - THE PRODIGAL LIFE
Pauline Creeden
#78. If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).
Thomas S. Monson
#79. Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag
they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.
Bill Maher
#80. After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without the comfort of family or friends, Whitman wrote, nothing of ordinary misfortune seems as it used to.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#81. I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died.
Melissa Bank
#82. Immortal honour, endless fame, Attend the Almighty Father's name: The Saviour Son be glorified, Who for lost man's redemption died; And equal adoration be, Eternal Paraclete, to Thee. Amen. - RABANUS MAURUS (9TH C.); TRANSLATED BY JOHN DRYDEN (1631
David P. Gushee
#83. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.
Meghan Daum
#84. I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.
Christopher Lee
#85. When Theolyn died, the humans had built an enormous pyre and placed his body at the center. How was [Veka] supposed to know humans cremated their dead instead of cooking them? She had figured it out quickly enough, but not before Jimar and his ilk had spotted her standing at the pyre, fork in hand.
Jim C. Hines
#86. I feel you. Inside. In the parts of me I crushed the night my mother died. No matter how I tried to keep you out, you got in and I couldn't let you leave me behind. So listen to me when I say this. My life is yours. You're the reason I'll stay alive. The only goddamn reason.
Dee Tenorio
#87. I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.
Ryan Adams
#88. Want to give you everything you need." You do. You are. Hopelessly romantic words died in Maddox's throat. This moment was already perfect enough. I've loved you for years.
Annabeth Albert
#89. A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.
Erik Larson
#90. I had fallen in love with a young man ... , and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis ... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery ...
Gertrude B. Elion
#91. When the light that kisses the back of her eyes were birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?
How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?
But not this one.
Amie Kaufman
#93. I'd gotten so used to being known as the girl whose dad died, I sometimes forgot that I'd had a life before that.
Sarah Dessen
#94. History is not just a tale of men's making, but is a thing tied to the land. We call a hill by the name of a hero who died there, or name a river after a princess who fled beside its banks, and when the old names vanish, the stories go with them and the new names carry no reminder of the past.
Bernard Cornwell
#95. 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings
#96. Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders.
Norman Geisler
#97. I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.
Peaches Geldof
#98. And if the characters haven't died, they carry on murdering to this very day ...
Rebekka Kricheldorf
#99. The heart of grief, its most difficult challenge, is not "letting go" of those who have died but instead making the transition from loving in presence to loving in separation.
Thomas Attig
#100. My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
Don McLean
