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“There is something fascinating in grief: though we feel it hurts our peace . . . when it is great, and long continued, it threatens the very root of our usefulness, we are apt to indulge it, and to brood over sorrow till it gives a tincture to the whole frame of our spirit, and, perhaps, makes a lodgment in us, too deep to be removed.”

Newton, the pastor of grief and dreams.

“He [God] gives us so to speak 96 or 97 blessings in hand, 3 or 4 he bids us wait for, but because we have not the whole hundred and all at once, we forget the value of the rest, we grieve and despond; the sun shines upon us in vain.” - John Newton