You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book? --Psalm 56:8
Those who sow in tears Shall reap in joy.--Psalm 126:5
for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." --Revelation 7:17
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."--Revelation 21:4
A smothered grief is hard to endure.
Brethren, we sin when we either laugh or weep behind God’s back. Absence from God is the element of sin. When you cannot smile nor weep except by forgetting God and his law, then are you offending; but if you can get up to your great Father’s bosom, and bury your head there, you may sob away without stint; for that which he permits is evidently no offence. “Jesus wept,” but he never murmured. “Jesus wept,” but he never found fault with God’s dispensations. “Jesus wept,” sweetly in submission, not bitterly in rebellion. 2091.345
O dear friend, when thy grief presses thee to the very dust, worship there! 2457.134
Tears are the diamonds of heaven; sighs are a part of the music of Jehovah’s court,
and are numbered with “the sublimest strains that reach the majesty on high.” ME616
Is it not sweet to believe that our tears are understood even when words fail! Let us
learn to think of tears as liquid prayers, and of weeping as a constant dropping of
importunate intercession which will wear its way right surely into the very heart of
mercy, despite the stony difficulties which obstruct the way. TD6:8
A tear is enough water to float a desire to God. 879.382
Why are we troubled? Is there anything worth shedding a tear for now that all is well
for eternity? 1343.154
When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds
with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs
of those who have no hope in anything but his love. 1706.107
People die of bursting hearts when no tears relieve them. 2034.407
Turn the vessel upside down; it is a good thing to empty it, for this grief may ferment
into something more sour. Turn the vessel upside down, and let every drop run out;
but let it be before the Lord. 2457.134
When they begin to live to Christ they begin to mourn. Every child of God is born
again with a tear in his eye. Dry-eyed faith is not the faith of God’s elect. He who
rejoices in Christ at the same time mourns for sin. Repentance is joined to faith by
loving bands, as the Siamese twins were united in one. 3325.509
