"We just knew that death was a part of the story." - Sarah Condon "We've lost a lot, no longer seeing death. It's not a part of our story anymore. Death is just one more way for us to explain ourselves... It's become another self-improvement project." - SC "People on their deathbeds, Christian or not, have said the same three things to me; I'm scared. What is heaven like? Will they let me in? I tell them about the blessed assurance of Jesus, the promise that he is their story and he is their song; as life as in death and that is all that I have to offer to someone who is dying." - SC "It is in death that we come to know life." - SC "Saint Paul wants us to be excited about death as a fundamental part of our story." -SC "All of this ends up in a coffin. And that's how my story ends. And that is awesome news." - SC

"By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life." - Paul, the Apostle - Romans 6:2-4

"Whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." - Book of Common Prayer

"Jesus knows when we remember our death, it brings our story to life. When we deny our death, we deny ourselves the fullness of our grace; we deny ourselves the fullness of our story." - Sarah Condon "We miss out if we do not have a context of the cross to give our death life." - SC "When people tell us their stories, we want to give them advice, to up their game, we want to hand out bootstraps at the door, right? We don't want people to talk about the hard stuff because we don't want to deal with our hard stuff." - SC "We are crushed under the weight of ourselves. Because our sins and sorrows and self-righteousness are too much to bear, alone." - SC "Jesus gives up his life to be our story and his breathe to be our song. Jesus rescues us in our death. We cannot make it out alive and that is the best part of our story." - SC