Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

The line compresses human existence into two fleeting instants: living and dying. By calling both “but a moment,” it frames mortality not as an aberration but as a natural, equally brief transition—an attempt to reduce fear by shrinking death’s perceived magnitude. Read this way, the quote encourages urgency and perspective: if life is short, it should be lived deliberately; if death is also momentary, it need not dominate one’s imagination. In a pastoral or motivational register often associated with Schuller, the sentiment can function as consolation, urging readers to focus on meaning, faith, and present action rather than anxiety about the end.