Status Updates From Facing Grief (Puritan Paper...

Quote: “It is much more becoming a Christian ingenuously to open his troubles than sullenly to smother them. There is no sin in complaining to God, but much wickedness in complaining of him. Griefs are eased by groans and heart-pressures relieved by utterance.”

Quote: Let your eyes, therefore, be neither wholly dry, nor let them overflow. Weep you may, but wail you must not. Happy man that still keeps the golden bridle of moderation upon his passions and affections, and still keeps the possession of himself, whatsoever he lose the possession of.

Quotes: To bury a child, any child, rends the heart of a tender parent; for what are children, but the parent multiplied? But to lay a son in the grave, this was always reckoned a very great affliction.
He does not condemn all mourning as sinful, no, Christ would not have his people stupid and without feeling; he only prohibits the excesses and extravagancies of our sorrows for the dead.

Reading the Banner of Truth Puritan Classics hardback edition.