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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
Explore more quotes by Timothy Radcliffe


"Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ."


"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."


"At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar."


"The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity."


"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger."


"To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility."


"The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods."
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