Words of encouragement for abortion (43+)

Words of encouragement for abortion

  • “A brighter tomorrow is just around the corner.”
  • “A mother is never defined by the number of children you can see, but by the love that she holds in her heart.” – Franchesca Cox
  • “After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body’s way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn’t meant to be.” -Christie Brinkley
  • “An angel in the book of life wrote down my baby’s birth. Then whispered as she closed the book ‘too beautiful for earth’.” -Unknown
  • “Angel, you were born to fly!” -from the song ‘When You Come Back Down’, by Nickel Creek
  • “Because someone we love is in heaven, we feel heaven in our home.”
  • “Don’t count what you lost but instead cherish what you have and plan what you want to gain, for the past never returns but the future may fulfill the loss.”
  • “Don’t let your sadness of the past, and the fear of the future, ruin the happiness of the present.”
  • “Everybody wants to be happy, nobody wants to feel pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without any rain.” -Unknown
  • “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison
  • “Grief, I’ve learned, is really love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot give. The more you loved someone, the more you grieve. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes and in that part of your chest that gets an empty and hollow feeling. The happiness of love turns to sadness when unspent. Grief is just love with no place to go.” – Jamie Anderson
  • “Hope… Sometimes, that’s all you have when you have nothing else. If you have it, you have everything.”
  • “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh
  • “How very quietly you tiptoed into our world, silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footprints have left upon our hearts.” -Unknown
  • “I carried you every second of your life, and I will love you for every second of mine.” -Unknown
  • “I carry your heart with me, I am never without it.” – E. E. Cummings
  • “I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye, was the trouble. I wanted to kiss you goodnight, and there’s a lot of difference.” – Ernest Hemingway
  • “I fell in love with you when you were forming in my womb, now I carry you in my heart instead of my arms.” -Unknown
  • “I held you every second of your life.” – Stephanie Paige Cole
  • “I may not hold you in my arms, but I will always hold you in my heart.”
  • “I’ll love for forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” – Robert Munsch
  • “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be.”
  • “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” – 1 John 1:9.
  • “If you are going through hell, keep going or you will be stuck there forever.”
  • “In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night . . . You—only you—will have stars that can laugh!” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • “It will all be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.”
  • “Just because something isn’t happening for you right now doesn’t mean that it will never happen again.”
  • “Just because we lost a life, doesn’t mean we have to lose ourselves.” – Tamara Gabriel
  • “Sometimes in tragedy, we find our life’s purpose.” -a part of a quote by Robert Brault
  • “Sometimes it’s hard to see the rainbow when there’s been endless days of rain.” – Christina Greer
  • “Sometimes the small sounds of blessings are found in the hardest moments of life. Listen for the whispers…” -Maureen Watts
  • “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A. A. Milne
  • “Sometimes, God puts us down so that we can learn how to stand again after a fall.”
  • “The best advice that I got during counselling: Don’t judge your spouse’s grief response. Give them the freedom to grieve their own way.” – Rachel Crawford
  • “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched, but are felt in the heart.” – Helen Keller
  • “There is no right way to grieve; there is only your way to grieve and that is different for everyone.” – Nathalie Himmelrich
  • “Through strength, I will mend.”
  • “Throughout my life, there were a few hard days. Days where even when I tried to be happy, my heart still cracked, and Mother’s Day was one of those. For others, it stood as a celebration. For me, it spoke of loss and failure. Because there’s no such thing as an ‘almost’ Mother’s day.” – Brittainy Cherry
  • “We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love anymore.” – Anne Enright
  • “What my sister needed was not people urging her, as so many did, to get pregnant again as soon as possible, but acknowledgement of her loss and the violence that she experienced in that loss. She needed to know that this was not a failure or that she was a bad mother. She needed to be allowed to be not only sad but also, in her grief, to be angry.” – Soraya Chemaly
  • “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “You are my tiny pieces of the divine.”
  • “You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” -Zig Ziglar
  • “You don’t realize how strong you are until being strong is the only option you have.” -adapted from a quote by Bob Marley
  • “You never arrived in my arms, but you will never leave my heart.” – Zoe Clark-Coates
  • “Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its colour.” – W. S. Merwin
  • A child is given to you through God and called back home by Him as well. You gave your unborn baby the most blessed home during his short time with you.
  • A piece of my heart will never be at peace again.
  • Abortion … interferes with God’s plan–a plan He willed before He created the universe. Abortion is in violation of God-given life. Richard C. Halverson
  • Abortion is a question of choice. Robert Casey
  • Abortion is an act of desperation. It’s an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption. Bob Carlisle
  • Abortion is not a favor for the medical profession to bestow but an obligation for them to perform. Leslie Cannold
  • Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations. Tony Abbott
  • But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child -That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. – Mother Theresa
  • By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
  • Devastated doesn’t begin to cover how I feel after the loss of my baby.
  • Do not let your heart be empty, but instead filled with the prayers of healing upon the loss of your pregnancy.
  • Do not muffle your cries, for they are the sound of pregnancy loss.
  • Even though you were with me for a short time, I feel as if I knew you better than my own heart.
  • Even when tears no longer stain my face, my heart is still stained by miscarriage.
  • Feelings of emptiness may overwhelm you after the loss of a pregnancy, but know that you are overwhelmed with my love and prayers.
  • For the day will come where you see your unborn baby not through tears of sorrow but a smile in memory of his short time with you on earth.
  • Give you fears, your sorrows, and your worries unto the Lord Jesus. Let him lift you up with His promise that you may one day rejoice with your baby in heaven.
  • Grieve for your baby and yourself in your own time.
  • Heaven gained the tiniest angel.
  • Hold my hand and know my shoulder is here for your burdens as well.
  • I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sin no more.” Isaiah 43:25.
  • I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should… I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder. Nancy Reagan
  • I wish I could have held you just once before you left us.
  • If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies. Louise Slaughter
  • Let’s not pretend that abortion isn’t about the mass slaughter of innocents. Michael Aston
  • Losing a pregnancy is like losing a part of oneself that will never be made whole again.
  • May you find healing in the Word of your faith as you mourn the loss of your baby.
  • May you find hope and healing with your loved ones as you mourn the loss of your miracle.
  • May you find physical and emotional healing in your own time after your pregnancy loss.
  • My cries cannot fill the silence my baby’s cries should have filled.
  • No one else could have wanted or loved your baby as much as you. Even in this short time, I saw a mother’s love shining in your eyes.
  • Our prayers are with you and your baby. May God provide you comfort and surround you in His loving arms.
  • Our time here is short, and yours ended before it began. I miss you before I met you, sweet baby of mine.
  • Sad is my only state since you left me.
  • Since my miscarriage, my emotions run from a deep love to deep anger to deep sadness. Know, dear child in heaven, that your loss is felt deeply in my soul.
  • Some say you’re too painful to remember. I say you’re too precious to forget.
  • Sweet baby, I cannot wait to see you in my dreams since I cannot see you here in my arms.
  • The greatest love of all is that between a parent and child. Your love for your unborn child was bigger than any love I’ve ever seen.
  • The longing in my heart is only for you, my dear baby in heaven.
  • The loss of a baby is a promise broken.
  • The pain of losing a baby is one that no one should ever feel.
  • The pitter-patter of unborn feet is a memory that runs through my heart.
  • The small kicks, the tiny bumps, the stretched womb; the loss of a pregnancy is felt beyond the heart.
  • The spark of your unborn baby ignited the eternal flame of love in all our hearts.
  • The trumpets sounded and the choir of angels sang their song of praise and sorrow upon the arrival of your baby in heaven.
  • Though your body may heal quickly, the emotional wound of your pregnancy loss may linger. Give yourself time to grieve.
  • We asked God for a baby, instead he gave us an Angel.
  • You are in my heart, in my thoughts, in my life, always.”
  • You are near, even if I don’t see you.
  • You are the strongest person I know. Your fierce love for your unborn baby inspires us all.
  • You are with me, even if you are far away.
  • You become a mother the moment you become pregnant, and you remain a mother forever.
  • You were but a drop of rain to the eye but managed to flood my heart with love during your brief time with us.
  • You will make it through your baby’s loss with all of us by your side. I am here for you, always.

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