Quotes about Loss

His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

May God bless those who died and bless their families. With regards, George Bush.

Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.