Stronger Than the Cords of Death...

Sometimes things go wrong even though we have done our very best. A Lamb innocent and pure, our Savior weeps with and for us. When we always remember Him, He can stand with us “at all times and in all things, and in all places that [we] may be in.” His “faithfulness is stronger than the cords of death.”

-Gerrit W. Gong, Of the Seventy

Death

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People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

-Sue Monk Kidd, from "The Secret Life of Bees"

Our Dead...

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The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.
-Frank Herbert, Dune

Sunday Will Come

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“Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays.

“But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come.

“No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, in this life or the next, Sunday will come.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin