Quotes on Grief & Comfort
Christian quotes on Grief & Comfort — 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
A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The bells sound, they sound quite differently than usual, when one knows of a dead person whom one loves.
Martin Luther
No greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery.
Dante Alighieri
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
If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.
George MacDonald
The Lord Jesus understands us to the depths. When others cannot share our sorrow because they do not understand it, the Lord Jesus still comes down to us into the deepest depths and understands our bitterest heartache, because he has experienced it himself.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
No pit is so deep that the Lord is not deeper still. Underneath us are the everlasting arms.
Corrie ten Boom
When I must one day depart, do not depart from me! When I must suffer death, then stand in for me!
Paul Gerhardt
We need someone to lift us and hold us because we live, and to lay a hand under our head when we must die; and Christ can do this abundantly, according to what is written of him.
Matthias Claudius
Death is the side facing us of that whole whose other side is called resurrection.
Romano Guardini
A dying old man once said: I can no longer remember God's promises. But it doesn't matter: God hasn't forgotten a single one.
Corrie ten Boom
The more beautiful and full the memory, the harder the parting. But gratitude transforms the torment of memory into quiet joy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christians are not fobbed off with promises of the afterlife, but comforted from the afterlife.
Peter Hahne
Lord Jesus, I am not alone, for You are with me. I have buried my wives and my daughter, but You are still here. I am never alone or lonely with You and Your smile, which is better than life itself!
George Muller
Jesus Christ has comfort for all your weariness and light for your darkest hours.
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
There is no sorrow on earth that heaven cannot heal.
Thomas More
The eternal arms are spread out beneath us. If we must fall, then let us fall into them.
Helmut Thielicke
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
One day God will wipe away your tears. The hands that created space will touch your cheeks. The hands that clenched in agony when the nail pierced them will one day cup your face and wipe your tears away.
Max Lucado
The God who surrounds us now in life will also receive us in death and embrace us in his loving arms.
Anselm Grün
You cannot wipe away someone's tears without getting your hands wet.
Arno Backhaus
There is no cross in our life, whether small or great, that the Lord does not share with us.
Pope Francis
How inexpressibly wonderful it is to know that all our concerns are held in the hands that bled for us.
John Newton
A broken heart is not healed with logic; it is healed with love.
Warren Wiersbe
Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardner.
George Herbert
Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.
Sam Storms
Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.
George Muller
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
People quoted here
Henri Nouwen, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Martin Luther, Dante Alighieri, Helen Keller, William Shakespeare, Sophie Scholl, George MacDonald, Corrie ten Boom, Paul Gerhardt, Matthias Claudius, Romano Guardini
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