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