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mourning
«While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.»
Author: John Taylor
(Philosopher, Politician, Senator)
| About:
Friends,
Funerals
| Keywords:
loss, mourning, rejoicing, veil
«The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
accommodates, brightens, consolation, exquisite, mourning
«What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back; as it is grief at not being able to want to do so»
«Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.»
«The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.»
«Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: / And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.»
«The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; / To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; / To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.»
«Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; / To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.»
«We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
Dr., Dr, hall, his mother, mourning