“Death is a great fact that all acknowledge but very few seem to ponder. Most men eat, and drink, and talk, and plan is if they were going to live up on earth forever. The true Christian must be on his guard against this spirit. He would live well should often think of his last day, and make it his company keeper. Against murmuring and discontent and envy in the state of poverty, and against pride and self-sufficiency and arrogance in the possession of wealth, there are a few better antidotes than the remembrance of death.”

—J.C. Ryle