Quotes about Grief

God's reality is displayed to us in His Word or His world and we do not then feel in our heart any grief or longing or hope or fear or awe or joy or gratitude or confidence, then we may dutifully sing and pray and recite and gesture as much as we like, but it will not be real worship.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

Alone and friendless, what would be his lot in the strange land to which he was going? For a time Joseph gave himself up to uncontrolled grief and terror. But, in the providence of God, even this experience was to be a blessing to him.

When the Spirit of God is grieved away, every appeal made through the Lord's servants is meaningless to them.

Let grief distract the sufferer's breast, And night obscure his way; They hasten him to endless rest, And everlasting day.

They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because the words did not come straight off the page. They percolated up through the silt and gravel of real people's lives so that the meaning in them was fluid, not fixed.

So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. JOHN 16 : 22

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show

I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.