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Quotes About Loss

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
~ Gordon Lightfoot
It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.
~ Margaret Starbird
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
~ Oswald Chambers
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.
~ Frank Laubach
There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.
~ Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.
~ Anna Nicole Smith
I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.
~ Bernadette Peters
May God bless those who died and bless their families. With regards, George Bush.
~ George H. W. Bush
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.
~ Henri Nouwen
When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.
~ Janette Oke
I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.
~ Hugh Laurie
The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
~ Clara Zetkin
I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past
~ Tom Petty
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
~ Elie Wiesel
It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
~ George Michael
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
~ Alexander Smith
I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.
~ Steven Curtis Chapman
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
~ Anne Sexton
What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.
~ Bill Janklow
O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.
~ T. S. Eliot
It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.
~ Todd Burpo
I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
~ Victoria Wood
To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
~ Gerhard Richter
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton