Tears
are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be
watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good
hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves. - Matthew
Henry
No
one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the
sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same
restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. - C. S. Lewis
As
warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen
mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it
begins to melt and pass away. - Henry Ward Beecher
When
we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often
find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures,
have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and
tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or
confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can
tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of
our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. - Henri Nouwen
In
the world about us, in the fields of fine music, art and literature, the artist
never reaches the climax of his labors and gives to the world the best in
creative beauty and strength until he has known the poignant touch of personal
sorrow or grief or trouble. Oftentimes it is like a divine alchemy turning the
ordinary and prosaic life into a glorious display of divine power, fortitude and
beauty. It is the use of trouble that releases the deeper springs of our lives
and sets allow the streams of mercy and understanding which a perishing world
needs. - John Wright Follette
Tears
are a tribute to our deceased friends. When the body is sown, it must be
watered. But we must not sorrow as those that have no hope; for we have a good
hope through grace both concerning them and concerning ourselves. - Matthew
Henry
No
one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the
sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same
restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. - C. S. Lewis
As
warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen
mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it
begins to melt and pass away. - Henry Ward Beecher
When
we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often
find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures,
have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and
tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or
confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can
tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of
our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. - Henri Nouwen
In
the world about us, in the fields of fine music, art and literature, the artist
never reaches the climax of his labors and gives to the world the best in
creative beauty and strength until he has known the poignant touch of personal
sorrow or grief or trouble. Oftentimes it is like a divine alchemy turning the
ordinary and prosaic life into a glorious display of divine power, fortitude and
beauty. It is the use of trouble that releases the deeper springs of our lives
and sets allow the streams of mercy and understanding which a perishing world
needs. - John Wright Follette