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As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end - the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, 'Take thine ease, for all is well!'

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.