Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.