Quotes about Loss

you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.

The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart's tribute to the privilege to love.

In fact, the absence of appropriate grief after loss may be an indicator of another kind of serious stronghold.

The downside of human closeness is that, to the degree you have loved their presence, you grieve their loss. Amanda

We can remain surrendered to the cause of Christ, sacrificial and sanctified, gospel driven to the bone, and our fruitfulness can still suffer loss. All the devil has to do is lure us away from abiding in Christ.

Do not tell me death is real. It is not. I have sustained my heart for ages with the love my brother passed on to me, dead as he was.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? MARK 8:36

It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: "God also gave them up" [Romans 1:24 KJV].

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose . . . a time to gain, and a time to lose" (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 NKJV). In times of loss there are lessons to be gained. Let's not miss the purposes of God even in times of sorrow and disappointment, for He is always with us on our journey.

What shall it profit a man, if he . . . gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.