Take the Dimness of My Soul Away Quotes

“We are fast approaching the time of year when our praying and preaching will be chock full of the cross of Jesus Christ. Concerning crosses, Jesus was reported to have said, “I must bear mine, and all who would come after me must bear theirs.” Notice, he did not say that all who would come after him must bear his. No, they must bear their own. In the economy of the gospel, some (including soldiers) may be called to die for others. Others (including suicides) may be called to live for others. Both take great courage.”
― William A. Ritter, Take the Dimness of My Soul Away: Healing After a Loved One's Suicide

“To whatever degree the dead may be aware of what they have left behind them, I doubt they feel honored by our inability to get beyond them. For if our lives stop when their life stops, death has killed twice.”
― William A. Ritter, Take the Dimness of My Soul Away: Healing After a Loved One's Suicide

“All of this leads me to the first in a trio of truths I want to share with you. The best way to honor the dead is to love the living.”
― William A. Ritter, Take the Dimness of My Soul Away: Healing After a Loved One's Suicide

“make the kind of sense to me that it somehow made to him. So I keep returning to George Buttrick's line, “Life is essentially a series of events to be borne and lived through, rather than a series of riddles to be played with and solved.” What this means is that in coming to terms with sorrow, courage counts for a whole lot more than brilliance.”
― William A. Ritter, Take the Dimness of My Soul Away: Healing After a Loved One's Suicide

“I guess that in coming to terms with sorrow, courage counts a whole lot more than brilliance.”
― William A. Ritter, Take the Dimness of My Soul Away: Healing After a Loved One's Suicide

“The “whys” abound, of course. But we are slowly coming to terms with the inevitability of mystery. We are not going to get it all figured out. Ever. Which is why there is comfort in George Buttrick's observation that “life is essentially a series of events to be borne and lived through, rather than a series of intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.”
― William A. Ritter, Take the Dimness of My Soul Away: Healing After a Loved One's Suicide