
At LifecyclePrints we know that inspirational words of encouragement play an important and special role during times of grief and loss as well as times of celebration.
Inspirational words delivered through bible scriptures, poems, quotes and song are especially powerful and can help those who have suffered the loss of a loved one feel hope for tomorrow. In the section below, LifecyclePrints provides a list of well known bible scriptures, poems quotes and funeral resource links dealing with death and loss that can be used to plan funeral arrangements, customize your funeral program template, celebration template and invitation template.
Inspirational Quotes & Poems
Famous Christian Quotes About Death
“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies” – By Williams Penn
“When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God’s love.” – By Charles H. Spurgeon
“It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.” – By Ignatius of Antioch
“He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.” –By Matthew Henry
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – By C.S. Lewis
“Death to the Christian is the funeral of all his sorrows and evils, and the resurrection, of all his joys.” – By James H Aughey
“Death of the spirit is the cessation of its communication with God. Death of the body is the cutting off of communication between spirit and body.” – By Watchman
“God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.” – By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“God is infinitely more honored by the sacrifices of death than by those of life; by the latter we honor Him as a great Sovereign, but by the former, as God, losing all things for his glory.” – By Madame Guyon
“Let them fear death who do not fear sin.” – By Thomas Watson
“If life has not made you by God’s grace, through faith, holy…think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them.” – By Alexander MacLaren
“To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.” – By John Bunyan
“It is a precious thing beyond all words, especially in the hour of death that we have a God whose nature is such that what pleases Him is not our work for Him but our need for Him.” – By John Piper
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” – By Charles Spurgeon
“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.” – By George Whitefield
“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?” – By Blaise Pascal
“Life is but a moment, death also is but another.” – By Robert H. Schuller
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – By Harriet Beecher Stowe
“When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God’s love.” – By Charles Spurgeon
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” – By Helen Keller
A Consoling Famous Death Poem
Death is Nothing At All
Death is nothing at all.
Famous Death Poem
A Happy Man by Edwin Arlington Robinson
When
these graven lines you see,
Traveller, do not pity me;
Though I be among the dead,
Let no mournful word be said.
Children that I leave behind,
And their children, all were kind;
Near to them and to my wife,
I was happy all my life.
My three sons I married right,
And their sons I rocked at night;
Death nor sorrow never brought
Cause for one unhappy thought.
Now, and with no need of tears,
Here they leave me, full of years,--
Leave me to my quiet rest
In the region of the blest.
Famous Death Poem
This poem was published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. The innocence suggested within the poem is that sympathy alone can comfort and heal.
On Another's Sorrow
by William Blake
Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?
Can I see a falling tear,
And not feel my sorrow's share?
Can a father see his child
Weep, nor be with sorrow filled?
Can a mother sit and hear
An infant groan, an infant fear?
No, no! never can it be!
Never, never can it be!
And can He who smiles on all
Hear the wren with sorrows small,
Hear the small bird's grief and care,
Hear the woes that infants bear --
And not sit beside the next,
Pouring pity in their breast,
And not sit the cradle near,
Weeping tear on infant's tear?
And not sit both night and day,
Wiping all our tears away?
Oh no! never can it be!
Never, never can it be!
He doth give his joy to all:
He becomes an infant small,
He becomes a man of woe,
He doth feel the sorrow too.
Think not thou canst sigh a sigh,
And thy Maker is not by:
Think not thou canst weep a tear,
And thy Maker is not near.
Oh He gives to us his joy,
That our grief He may destroy:
Till our grief is fled an gone
He doth sit by us and moan.
Comforting Bible Verses
Psalm 23