It is God Almighty who puts eternity in a man’s breast and tomorrow in a man’s heart and gives His people immortality, so what you see down here really is not much. But when the bird of immortality takes to the wing, she sails on and on, over the horizon and out into the everlasting tomorrows and never comes down and never dies.1
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… mortality is the sentence of death. Death is the carrying out of the sentence of mortality. They are not the same. Death is the final act—man’s mortality lies in his knowledge that he can never escape!2