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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Ruth 1:16-17, 2 Samuel 18:33, Luke 15:11-32, Genesis 22:1-19, Psalm 90:12, Job 1:21, Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
    The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Matthew 27:41, Matthew 10:28, Matthew 13:50
    The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

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    Alfred Lord Tennyson
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    ’Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

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    Albert Camus
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    Live to the point of tears.

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    Wendell Berry
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    Time, then, is told by love's losses, and by the coming of love, and by love continuing in gratitude for what is lost. It is folded and enfolded and unfolded forever and ever, the love by which th...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels so much like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that have become habitual…I keep on through habit fitting an arrow to the ...

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    Parker J. Palmer
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    The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we ...

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    Parker J. Palmer
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    The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we ...

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    1 Corinthians 13:1-3, John 15:12-13, 1 John 4:19, Matthew 22:37-40, Matthew 19:16-30
    To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

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    John Irving
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    When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pil...

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    William Blake
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    1 John 4:10-11, John 13:1-17, Romans 12:9-10, John 15:12-13, Philippians 2:3-4, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
    Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair. So sung a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the cattle’s feet; B...

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    Watchman Nee
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    Gaining spiritual life is conditional on suffering loss. We cannot measure our lives in terms of "gain"; they must be measured in terms of "loss." Our real capacity lies not in how...

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    Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow
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    You know the adage “People resist change.” It is not really true. People are not stupid. People love change when they know it is a good thing. No one gives back a winning lottery ticket. What people r...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never ...

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    Terry Tempest Williams
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    Grief dares us to love once more.

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    John Milton [Adam and Eve]
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    "We are one/One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself."

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    Max Headroom
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    Song of Solomon 8:6-7, Ephesians 5:25-28, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, Song of Solomon 2:10-12
    "Love! The walks over soft grass, the smiles over candlelight, the arguments over everything else."

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    Stanley Kunitz
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    Romans 5:3-4, Lamentations 3:31-32, Psalm 73:26, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 61:3
    How shall my heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?

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    Frederick Buechner
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    "What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup."

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    Charles Dickens
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    And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

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    Edward Hirsch
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    …I put down these memorandums of my affections In honor of tenderness, In honor of all of those who have been Conscripted into the brotherhood Of loss…

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    Julia Cameron
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    All artists must learn the art of surviving loss: loss of hope, loss of face, loss of money, loss of self-belief… Artistic losses can be turned into artistic gains and strengths—but not in isola- tion...

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    Elisabeth Elliot
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    2 Corinthians 11:23-28, Ruth 1:16, 1 John 4:18, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, John 15:12-13
    To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then, and be “safe”?

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    1 Corinthians 13:13, Mark 10:17-22, Luke 10:25-37, Matthew 22:34-40, Galatians 5:6, James 2:26
    Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

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    Emily Dickinson
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    Unable are the Loved to die / For Love is Immortality…

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    Fred Rogers
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    Acts 17:10-12, Mark 10:13-16, Matthew 22:34-40, Luke 10:25-37, Romans 12:2, Philippians 4:8
    Love is at the root of everything—all learning, all parenting, all relationships—love or the lack of it. And what we hear or see on the screen is part of who we become.

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    Christopher Poindexter
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    Mark 1:40-45, Luke 15:11-32, John 4:1-42, Luke 10:25-37, Revelation 21:4, Colossians 3:14
    “And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    As we feel the pain of our own losses, our grieving hearts open our inner eye to a world in which losses are suffered far beyond our own little world of family, friends, and colleagues. It is the worl...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Real grief is not healed by time…If time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware of who she was for us, and the more intimately we experience what her l...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    1 John 4:7-8, Luke 19:1-10, Ruth 1:16, Ephesians 3:17-19, 1 John 4:16
    My weight is my love. Wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.
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