"Christ was treated as we deserve, so that we might be treated as He deserves. He died for our sins, in which He had no part, so that we could be justified by His righteousness in which we had no part. He died the death that belongs to us so that we might live the life that belongs to Him."

- Lynn Anderson, If I Really Believe Why Do I Have These Doubts?

 

So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

- From William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis"