Always remember death

 

Always remember death, meditating on it should become a rule of life for you.

What a struggle the soul has when it separates from the body, when the books are opened and people's hidden deeds revealed.

How much it sighs then , how much it weeps , but it has no help except from good deeds it has done !




Elder Ephraim of Arizona

Death is man’s transfer from this world to the other—the one that is immortal and eternal.

You were patient for so many years, and they passed like a dream. But even if we lived a thousand years, they would still pass like a dream. Oh, how vain is everything that belongs to this world here! Every life is followed by death. Death is man’s transfer from this world to the other—the one that is immortal and eternal. It is not important if someone loses this life here. One way or another, we shall all die someday anyway. The important thing is not to lose our immortal life, the life without end. Endless life in hell—oh, what a fearful thing! My God, save us all.

Elder Ephraim of Arizona

Remembrance of Death

Everything in this vain world will pass.
The world and life are a fair, and each person can buy eternal life with the `` money `` of his life.

How wise is the person who spends his money - his life - buying whatever he will need for the hour
of death and the tribunal of God!


Let us buy precious things that are pleasing to the great King: confession, humility, purity of soul and body from carnal sins, godly love, and keeping ourselves far from criticizing others, idle talk, lying, etc. When we master all this , we shall be wealthy in God`s blessed land.


Counsels from the Holy Mountain
Elder Ephraim Arizona