Quotes

1 The soul that suffers is stronger than the soul that rejoices
-E. Shepard

2 Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven
-H.W. Beecher

3 Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy
-A. Helps

4 What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven’s distant lamps
-Longfellow

5 Death is the golden key that opens the palace of Eternity
-Milton

6 There is a sweet joy which comes to us through sorrow
-Spurgeon

7 Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal
-Moore

8 Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy
-Shakespeare

9 Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure
-Sir Oliver Lodge

10 Every man’s life is a plan of God
-Horace Bushnell

11 The acts of this life are the destiny of the next
-Eastern proverb

12 Sorrows are like tall angels with star-crowns in their hair
-Margery E. Howell

13 The heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on earth
-Lamennais

14 Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss
-Milton

15 To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another
-Leibniz

16 The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy
-Beaumont and Fletcher

17 Nature’s loving proxy, the watchful mother
-Bulwer - Lytton

18 The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God’s Heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth
-Dorothy Francis Gurney

19 Till the Master of All Good Workmen Shall set us to work anew
-Rudyard Kipling

20 The end and the reward of toil is rest
-James Beattie

21 In His will is our peace
-Dante

22 Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past
-Lowell

23 Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory
-Shelley

24 Things past belong to memory alone, things future are the property of hope
-John Home

25 Yet in this heart’s most sacred place, thou, alone, shall dwell forever
-Moore

26 There hath pass’d away a glory from the earth
-Wordsworth

27 Joy, joy forever! my task is done – the gates are pass’d, and heaven is won
-Moore

28 The cross leads generations on
-Shelley

29 The heart of man is restless until it finds its rest in Thee
-St. Augustine

30 God is, and all is well
-Whittier

31 Death’s but a path that must be trod, if man would ever pass to God
-T. Parnell

32 Onward to thy glory!
-R. H Horne

33 Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound
-H. Melville

34 He hath awakened from the dream of life
-Shelley

35 Beyond is the infinite morning of a day without tomorrow
-W. S. Abbott

36 Where He leads me I can safely go
-Millay

37 God gives us love Something to love He lends us
-Tennyson

38 But in the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing
-Ingersoll

39 There never was night that had no morn
-D. M. Craik

40 Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death
-Young

41 ’Tis not the whole of life to live, nor all of death to die
-J. Montgomery

42 Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground
-Wilde

43 Now twilight lets her curtain down and pins it with a star
-Clarke

44 Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest
-Vongoethe

45 His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than words, was simple doing good
-Whittier

46 But O for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
-Tennyson

47 For they conquer who believe they can
-Virgil

48 They who forgive most, shall be most forgiven
-Bailey

49 The unity that binds us all together
That makes this earth a family
And all men brothers and the sons of God
Is love
-Wolfe

50 His life was gentle, and the elements so mix’d in him that Nature might stand
up and say to all the world, “This was a man!“
-Shakespeare