There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.
Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
I think with age you get wiser and understand the importance of taking care of your skin. I think you're also more aware of your mortality.
There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die. Well, why don't they die?
I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.
As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.
Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.
