Quotes for Farewell & Funeral
Christian quotes for Farewell & Funeral — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
Death in its substance has been removed, and only the shadow of it remains… Nobody is afraid of a shadow, for a shadow cannot block a man’s pathway for even a moment. The shadow of a dog can’t bite; the shadow of a sword can’t kill.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
This is the end – for me the beginning of life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Do not be sad. God helps me so wonderfully and palpably up to now.
Alfred Delp
The bells sound, they sound quite differently than usual, when one knows of a dead person whom one loves.
Martin Luther
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller
What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
Helen Keller
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
Such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield in these days, how many young, promising lives.
Sophie Scholl
If, through a person, a little more love and kindness, a little more light and truth came into the world, then that person's life has had meaning.
Alfred Delp
From God's hand I received my life; under God's hand I shape my life; into God's hand I return my life.
Augustine of Hippo
Go under grace, go with God's blessing, go in his peace, whatever you do. Go under grace, listen to God's word, stay near him, whether you wake or rest.
Manfred Siebald
When I must one day depart, do not depart from me! When I must suffer death, then stand in for me!
Paul Gerhardt
I confess I sometimes feel a bit anxious when I think of the last journey, but my Savior is at the helm.
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
The more beautiful and full the memory, the harder the parting. But gratitude transforms the torment of memory into quiet joy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We step out of the shadow soon into a bright light. We step through the veil before God's face. We lay down the burden, the weary garment of earth. We are done with worries and with the last suffering. We step out of the darkness now into a bright light. Why we call it dying? I do not know.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It will not be death that comes for me, but God.
Thérèse of Lisieux
The God who surrounds us now in life will also receive us in death and embrace us in his loving arms.
Anselm Grün
Our life on earth is only the first page of the book, not the last.
Corrie ten Boom
The end of our life will be a pause in the middle of the furrow. The Lord reserves for himself to complete our works and give them the final polish.
Pope John XXIII
Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardner.
George Herbert
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven’s door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.
Samuel Rutherford
The power of Saint Paul I do not dare to ask, nor the faith of Saint Peter; but the grace you showed to the thief crucified beside you — that grace I ask of you, O Lord.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Ye have lost a child; nay, she is not lost to you, who is found in Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star which, going out of sight, does not die and vanish, but shines in another hemisphere.
Samuel Rutherford
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
The very happiest persons I have ever met with have been departing believers. The only people for whom I have felt any envy have been dying members of this very church, whose hands I have grasped in their passing away. Almost without exception I have seen in them holy delight and triumph. And in the exceptions to this exceeding joy I have seen deep peace, exhibited in a calm and deliberate readiness to enter into the presence of their God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You will tell the others that I am going home a little sooner than I thought. Then tell them not to talk about the servant but to talk about the Savior.
F. B. Meyer
You who love me, do not look at the life I am ending, but at the life I am beginning.
Augustine of Hippo
Some people seem to want to rush me through my sadness. They want to fix me. But I lost someone I loved dearly, and I'm sad.
Nancy Guthrie
If I hadn't loved him, there wouldn't be this agony.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Man lives and endures but a little while; and all the world with its splendor passes away. There is only One who is eternal in every place, and we are in his hands.
Matthias Claudius
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis
Where I came from, where I go, I do not know! But this: from God to God, is my confidence.
Friedrich Rückert
Where are we going? Always homeward.
Novalis
Best of all, God is with us.
John Wesley
Let me go to the house of the Father.
Pope John Paul II
Death is not the full stop of our life, but at most a semicolon.
Detlev Fleischhammel
People quoted here
Henri Nouwen, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Alfred Delp, Martin Luther, Helen Keller, William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Sophie Scholl, Augustine of Hippo, Manfred Siebald, Paul Gerhardt
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