Making Loss Matter Quotes

“If we can love, if we can believe in the possibility of figuring out a place for ourselves in the world, we can endure losing home. For we will create a new one.

Each place we leave is a room in the house we build inside. The mortar is the belief that each home was necessary to make us who we are. We should not dread leaving or tremble at the unknown places where we have to go. We are wanderers all, children of the wilderness.”
― David J. Wolpe, Making Loss Matter

“Prayer is not about the accuracy of the ritual, but about offering up one’s heart. It is not that God, or the world, needs one’s heart, but that we need to be able to offer… Prayer is the moment when we agree not to hide...

Sometimes I am surprised at what wells up inside me [when I pray]. I ask for things I did not know I wanted. I pray in words I am surprised are mine. I feel embarrassed, and then ask myself, before whom am I embarrassed? Myself? Surely not before God to whom I am saying nothing unknown.”
― David J. Wolpe, Making Loss Matter

“Without loss we cannot grow. But without faith, we can not bear to lose... By enduring, we make a statement that even the most poignant loss can be made meaningful. Refusing to succumb to despair is the greatest act of faith.”
― David J. Wolpe, Making Loss Matter

“All life is limited, and limitation means loss. I have lost other lives I might have had. We all have.”
― David J. Wolpe, Making Loss Matter