Accepted Quote by Aiden Wilson Tozer

... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for…

— Walter Russell

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

— Horace Greeley

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief…

— Leo Tolstoy

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

— Timothy Keller

People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a…

— Sarada Devi

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign…

— Billy Graham

“If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. God's…

— W. Scott Lineberry

Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right,…

— Neil Abramson

While there may be thorns and disappointments, while there may be heartache, even heartbreak, there can be peace and comfort and strength from the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.”

— Maya Angelou