When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the captain of the ship sought to turn him back.  “You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages,” he cried.  Calvert replied, “We died before we came here.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Christian who died in Nazi hands, once said:  “When God calls a man, he bids him come and die.”

Someone once asked the German Christian George Mueller the secret of his victorious Christian life.  He replied:   “There came a day when George Mueller died, utterly died!  No longer did his own desires, preferences, and tastes come first.  He knew that from then on Christ must be all in all.”

Someone once saw this sign in the window of a dry-cleaning and dying business:  “We dye to live, we live to dye; the more we dye, the more we live; and the more we live, the more we dye.”

With a slight change in spelling, that’s a great slogan for every Christian!