Christian Grief Sayings

#1. We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Henry Miller

#2. The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

J.K. Rowling

#3. What he'd like to say is that he's lived it, if not the entire breadth and depth of the Christian faith then certainly the central thrust of it. The mystery, the awe, that huge sadness and grief. Oh my people.

Ben Fountain

#4. The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

Sophie Swetchine

#5. She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

Alicia G. Ruggieri

#6. All those postage-stamp front yards we used to have were reminders that we like clear spaces to see predators coming.

Daniel H. Wilson

#7. The women cried with one another, and it didn't seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned.

Harry Bernstein

#8. A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

Christian McEwen

#9. There is something about the creative process ... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened ... it's a sort of happy accident.

Betty Comden

#10. Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

Michael Chabon

#11. There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

Lisa Samson

#12. To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

Christian McEwen

#13. Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed.

Christian McEwen

#14. You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.

Ilchi Lee

#15. Tearless grief bleeds inwardly

Christian Nestell Bovee

#16. Monotony kills the heart. Ironically, monotony is what keeps the heart working.

Soumeet Lanka

#17. In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

Esai Morales

#18. A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

Oswald Chambers

#19. We are bidden to 'put on Christ', to become like God. That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

C.S. Lewis

#20. 'Match of the Day' is a great programme to be on. It's a programme I used to be allowed to stay up and watch from the age of 10, so to think that one day I'd actually appear on it was great.

Mark Lawrenson

#21. People aren't heroes. We're all - peddlers of the apocalypse. Big and small. I have these images in my mind, these pictures.

Svetlana Alexievich

#22. We all just want a life that matters!!

Dianna Donnely

#23. In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it also inspires a sense of awe, a glimpse of what is still "un-Googleable" ... life's mystery and magnitude.

Kim John Payne

#24. Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.

Ogden Nash

#25. You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

Dee Henderson