Light on the Grave and the World Beyond It

Men and women are fearfully and wonderfully made. We are not made up merely of brains, and head, and intellect and reason. We are frail, dying creatures, who have got hearts, and feelings, and consciences; and we live in a world of sorrow, and disappointment, and sickness, and death. And what can help us in a world like this? ... None but He who said, “Come unto Me, all ye that labour, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11.28). None but He who has thrown light on the grave, and the world beyond it, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel ...

~ J. C. Ryle