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As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

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.

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.

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

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?

Once I wished not to live, but the faculty of life seems to have sprung up in me again, from under the crushing foot of heavy grief.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.

It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

Surely civilization is old enough, surely mankind is mature enough so that we ought in our own lifetime to find a way to permanent peace.

Sorrow purifies and deepens the soul, and the extremity of sorrow is the prelude to Truth.

In time, the most stubborn grief will leave us, if in prudence we do not leave that first.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

This ripeness is so delightful to me, that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem as it were to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage.