And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!
Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.
Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with the idea that they can't display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that's your first concern.
I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.
When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.
Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives
So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
There is no shortcut to grieving.
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.
In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.
Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.
If we cannot serve a person who we can see, how can we serve a God whom we cannot see? Some just have to have their own thing and be the “boss”. I grieve for these people who have become the King of their own tiny mound, when they could have been a Prince in a major organization.
