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Letter "B" » bereavement
«Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.»
«Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.»
Author: Dean Inge
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bereavement
«The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.»
Author: Henri Nouwen
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bereavement, by the hour, cares, confusion, curing, despair, Despaired, despairs, Friend, grief, healing, heal all, hour, In a, in a moment, knowing, moment, silent, stay, stay on, that is, tolerate, tolerating
«Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.»
«Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.»
«CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.»
«If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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bereavement, exception, integral, integral part, pains, pairs, purgatorial, separation, sufferings, suspecting, The Dead, universal
«I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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bereavement, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, in reality, nihilist, nihilists, phenomenon, tenant, tenanted, tenanting, tenants, tenement, tenements, town
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