This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Bereavement is a wound. It's like being very, very badly hurt... You will grieve and that is painful. And your grief will have many stages, but all of them will be healing. Little by little, you will be whole again. And you will be a stronger person. Just as a broken bone knits and becomes stronger than before, so will you." - Lynn Caine
"Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love… Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove." - William Ralph Inge
"Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this." - James Martineau
"Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin" - John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom