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Quotes About Departed

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken.
~ Anonymous
When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his spirit is departed from him.
~ Anonymous
The angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed.
~ Anonymous
Dis manibus sacrum [Sacred to the departed spirit(s)].
~ Anonymous: Latin
The farm woman bristled. "Young man, we don't tolerate no folks like that in this peace-abiding neighborhood!" Frank could have pointed out the error in her contention, but he said nothing. Thanking her for her hospitality, he departed. He walked down the dirt road to Black Horse Pike, where he sat down and waited to be picked up.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Remember two very important things: the spirits of the departed are everywhere in the parallel dimensions (astral plane and higher planes), and the only reality spirits have in our own dimension is what we give them. By the intensity of our vibration level for reception, our intense faith, we draw them near to us.
~ Elaine Kuzmeskus
Let perpetual light shine upon them, O Lord, and may their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.
~ Anne Rice
DON'T MIND ME, I'M JUST DEAD!
~ Sara Shepard
I hear Martha's voice often as I walk along the beach. And others' too--Lily, Val, Kyla. I sometimes think I've swallowed every woman I ever knew. My head is full of voices. They blend with the wind and the sea as I walk the beach, as if they were disembodied forces of nature, a tornado whirling around me. I feel as if I were a medium and a whole host of departed spirits has descended on me clamoring to be let out.
~ Marilyn French
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
~ John Quincy Adams
Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'.
~ Anthony Anderson
The apartment was haunted by the ghost of her long departed cabbage.
~ Stephen King
THE MINISTER OF A SACRAMENT MUST BE IN THE WAYFARING STATE. —This condition ex cludes the angels and the departed. Christ con ferred His powers upon living men, 3 and the Apostles in their turn chose living men for their successors. 4 "It is those who inhabit the earth, and walk upon it," says St. Chrysostom, "who are called to administer heavenly things, and who have received a power which God has granted neither to the angels nor to the archangels.
~ Joseph Pohle
Not dead. Not injured. Just . . . gone.
~ Erin Hunter
Jesse, this is Craig. Craig, Jesse. You two should get along. Jesse's dead, too.
~ Meg Cabot
Because of Christ's resurrection--and His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Him--we are the most fortunate, the most blest people on the planet Our faith is effective, we are not in our sins, our departed loved ones are with the Lord, and the labor we do for Him is not in vain.
~ Bob Wilkin
Some scholars in recent years have expressed a certain wonderment that "religion is back"; the wonder is rather that it was thought ever to have departed, apart from the "scholarly wish fulfillment" or projections of those who accepted classic theories of modernization and secularization.30
~ Brad S. Gregory
Thus the souls of departed saints are not affected by the death which dismisses them from their bodies, because their flesh rests in hope, no matter what indignities it receives after sensation is gone.
~ St. Augustine
Necroluminescence--the light of the vanished. A hinnsight produced by the departed's body. Your failings backlit by the death of your loved ones.
~ Karen Russell
Necroluminescence--the light of the vanished. A hindsight produced by the departed's body. Your failings backlit by the death of your loved ones.
~ Karen Russell
not mere references to the body in the grave, but to locations of the spiritual soul as well. Sheol is a combined term that describes both the grave for the body and the underworld location of the departed souls of the dead. In the New Testament, the word Hades is used for the underworld, which was the Greek equivalent of Sheol.[98]
~ Brian Godawa
At certain moments, when death is close, the veils pull back between this world and the next. Heaven and earth overlay. When they do, it is possible to glimpse certain souls already departed. You can see them awaiting your arrival. And they can see you coming.
~ Mitch Albom
Laments were as old as verses of love, she knew. They were verses of love. For the departed who will never be met again, for the burned cities.
~ Nadeem Aslam