People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
