“Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.”

“How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, ‘I just don’t know where to turn’? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us—the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.”

“Reach up to the feet of God, looking for a sign...it was right here all the time...”

“God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.”

“From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.”

“God's strength makes us strong; His comfort comforts us. With Him, we no longer run; we rest.”