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" What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. "

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" A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. "

Charles Spurgeon

Brother

Happiness

Effort

" Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. "

" No one can make you happy. No one can help you grow in life more than you can. I can love you to death, but I can only go so far. I can inspire and encourage you as much as I can, but when you play an active role to find that self-security and that self-worth, it makes the difference. "

" If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. "

" Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death. "

" There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord. "

" When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn. "

" Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. "

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

" When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in. "

" Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. "

" We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind. "

" Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. "

Norman Cousins

Sympathy

Loss

" If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. "

" 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. "

" In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. "

" All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. "

Maurice Maeterlinck

Knowledge

Animals

" Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man

Death

Good

" Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful. "

" Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

Walt Whitman

Death

Nothing

" He who doesn't fear death dies only once. "

Giovanni Falcone

Fear

Death

" My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. "

" For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. "

" Every human being is under construction from conception to death. "

" My mother's death brought me to my knees. She was my hero, my role model, my very best friend. I spoke to her every single day of my life. I really tried hard when I grew up to make her proud of me. "

" We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. "

" Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial. "

" Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. "

" You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. "

" There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly. "