Quotes About Grief

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

Jesus wept.

Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.

Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things.

Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent down to look into the tomb,

“Woman, why are you weeping?” they asked. “Because they have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I do not know where they have put Him.”

“Woman, why are you weeping?” Jesus asked. “Whom are you seeking?” Thinking He was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried Him off, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him.”

God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.

At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.

So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.

They were especially grieved by his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

And you are proud! Shouldnít you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

For if I grieve you, who is left to cheer me but those whom I have grieved?

For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.

Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.