| Think card reference details |
| GR1 |
Our earthly condition is essentially that of wayfarers, of incompleteness moving towards fulfilment and therefore of struggle. (Yves Congar) |
| GR2 |
God is in your heart yet you search for him in the wilderness. (Sikh Scriptures) |
| GR3 |
He whom we love and lose is no longer where he was before. He is now wherever we are. (John Chrysostom) |
| GR4 |
Of your own will you have brought into being all things which before were not and by your might you uphold creation and by your providence you uphold the world. (Byzantine Liturgy) |
| GR5 |
I thank you Lord for knowing me better than I know myself and for letting me know myself better than others know me. Make me I ask you then better than they suppose and forgive me for what they do not know. (Abu Bakr) |
| GR6 |
Love is not changed by death and nothing is lost and all in the end is harvest. (Edith Sitwell) |
| GR7 |
Blessed are you Lord our God King of the Universe, who have created joy and gladness, bridegroom and bride, mirth and exultation, pleasure and love, brotherhood, joy, peace and fellowship. (Jewish prayer book) |
| GR8 |
May the God of grace be helping your right hand now and forever till your resurrection day! (from the Gaelic) |
| GR9 |
All that really matters is devotion to something bigger than ourselves. (Tierhard de Chardin) |
| GR10 |
Now in this city...There is a dwelling place, a tiny lotus flower, within it a tiny space. See what is within it...As wide as that space outside is the space within. The heart within it lie heaven and earth, fire and wind, sun and moon, lightning and the stars, everything. (Hindu Scriptures) |
| GR11 |
God always approaches man from beneath and man must always stoop to meet him. (Nicholas Zernov) |
| GR12 |
The power of God is capable of finding Hope where Hope no longer exists and a way where the way is impossible. (Gregory of Nyssa) |
| GR13 |
Lord make me an instrument of your peace......to be loved, as to love. (St Francis) |
| GR14 |
Lord Jesus I give you my hands...Lord Jesus who live and work and pray in me. (Grail prayer) |
| GR15 |
To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men. (Cesar Chavez) |
| GR16 |
The greatest revelation is stillness. (Lao Tse) |
| GR17 |
Death is not extinguishing the light but putting out the lamp because the dawn has come (R Tagore) |
| GR18 |
Lord teach us how to be open to your spirit. Lord make us receptive to your comings. (Etta Gullick) |
| GR19 |
From joy all beings have come by joy they all live and unto joy they all return. (Upanlshads) |
| GR20 |
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. (Antoine De St. Exupery) |
| GR21 |
Where there is joy there is fulfilment, where there is fulfilment there is joy (P. Tillich) |
| GR22 |
My Lord give me once more, the courage to hope. (Kierkegaard) |
| GR23 |
Set our hearts on fire with love to thee, oh Christ, that in that flame we may love thee and our neighbour as ourselves. (Eastern Orthodox prayer) |
| GR24 |
When I fall I shall rise; when I sit in the darkness, the lord will be a light to me. (Micah) |
| Consolation card reference details |
| 1 |
The rain does not leave a plant on the earth without making it grow: and Christ will not leave anyone without raising him or her into life. (Syrian Liturgy) |
| 2 |
Love is not changed by death and nothing is lost and all in the end is harvest (Edith Sitwell) |
| 3 |
Death is not extinguishing the light but putting out the lamp because the dawn has come (Tagore) |
| 4 |
O God give them rest in the place where green things grow: that delightful garden where pain and grief and sighing are unknown. Holy Lord God heaven and earth are full of your holy glory (Early Christian) |
| 5 |
If hope were not heart would break. (Ancren Riwle) |
| 6 |
You have not gone into the grave but into the joy and love of God. (Jewish Prayerbook) |
| 7 |
How fair and lovely is the hope which the Lord gave to the dead when he lay down like them beside them. Rise up and come forth and sing praise to him who has raised you from destruction. (Syrian Liturgy) |
| 8 |
Death is but crossing the world as friends cross the seas, they live in one another still. (William Penn) |
