Quotations on Bereavement

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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
- Dean Inge
(Keywords: Faith, Trust, God, Bereavement, Challenge)

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
- Henri Nouwen
(Keywords: Friend, Bereavement, Confusion, Despair, Grief, Healing)

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
- Jules Renard
(Keywords: Time, Mother, Bereavement, Comfort, Loss, Trying, Will)