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For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

Formerly, I thought that death was wearing out,--I stood ramparted about with so many healthy friends.

Fear proceeds from the same things when absent which occasion grief when present.

Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.

The third is, that it is folly to wear one's self out with grief which can avail nothing.

Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again, such as I can fearlessly say there never was before.

it was the virtue of the man that I loved, and that has not suffered death

Presently, after this was at an end, my mother died, and I was left at liberty to mourn her loss awhile.

The affectionate heart of my aunt, Catherine Porten, bewailed a sister and a friend; but my poor father was inconsolable, and the transport of grief seemed to threaten his life or his reason.

If sorrow in its reaction makes us think of our friends, let my name come among the list of yours to you, and with it let the thought come that I am not the coldest and least sincere.

In our sorrow we see the rough side of the stuff; in our joys the smooth; and who shall say that when the taffeta is turned the most silk may not be in the sorrows?