When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths. - William Mountford

Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.

It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow — the night of the soul — that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.