him very well
Cast thy burden upon the Lord
Thou hast known my soul in adversities
I know their sorrows
A refuge from the storm
A shadow from the heat
In the furnace of affliction
I will hedge up thy way with thorns
Tribulation worketh patience
Our light affliction
In all their affliction he was afflicted
He healeth the broken in heart
For a small moment have I forgotten thee but with great mercies will I
gather thee
God that comforteth those that are cast down comfort you
We shall have to bear our crosses with meekness and patience
So good a friend is capable of making any calamity light
The great loss you have sustained has caused me much uneasiness
I know not how to express my sorrow at the news which I have just
received
That God may give you great consolation under this heavy burden is my
fervent prayer
I should be glad if I could suggest anything to lighten your trouble
and make your path a little more smooth and easy
Such a sad circumstance has come to you
Your sorrow’s night
When one’s heart is unspeakably tender
We extend our heartfelt sympathy
In your hour of trial
She was such a beautiful character, loved by every one
In these lonely hours you must not be cast down for there is help from
God
His Word says that they that wait upon Him shall renew their strength
She was God’s good angel in your home
Grief that saps the heart
I account you mine
His name will long linger in our household
We must be brave in the face of trying circumstances
Of gracious memory
She bears up with the utmost fortitude
I received the melancholy intelligence last evening that——
He was the kindest, and most generous of men
The sweet remembrance of the just
A workman that needeth not to be ashamed
If God be for us who can be against us
Of whom the world was not worthy
Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth
Let not your heart be troubled
I know that your heart must be sorely grieved
God shall overcome this King of terrors
It is written, “As thy days so shall thy strength be”
We expect to see our loved ones in happier, brighter worlds above
God is able to soothe and sustain the distressed soul
May God’s love shine more and more in our hearts until the day breaks
and the shadows flee away
He careth for you
A stronghold in the day of trouble
A covert from the storm
We unite in sending our love and sympathy
With warm regards
We beg you to accept our commiseration
Our hearts sorrow with you
He is such a very great comfort to us
We are uplifted by the assurance that——
A light which sorrow cannot quench
We must all wait the call of God with a calm trust
Let me have the comfort of hearing from you
The hand of God has been heavy
His sterling qualities of character will leave an indelible impress on
those with whom he associated
His good life will live on
Dying in the triumphs of faith
Securely anchored in the never failing promises of God
A life of good-will, kindliness of spirit, and firm character
The benediction of his brotherly heart will bless many who knew him
We must live in the blessed anticipation of the glory that is to come
Do not fear, for God knows what is in your heart
Your path seems full of thorns
Your weather is bleak, but the storms will cease
Your sky is dark, but the sun shines
May the everlasting arms sustain you in the flood of sorrow
May God comfort you
Out of the thorn springeth the rose
I know you are in grief and heaviness
We commend you to the mercy and grace of God
The bitterness of affliction
The present floods of sorrow
You will have to cast your anchor in the dark
May your heart be constant
The Lord will surely give you rest from the days of adversity
I would that you should always have the sweet experience of the
consolations of God
We all have the good-will of Him who dwelt in the bush
My heart is heavy for you
We must wait till the fair morning of the resurrection
I write my blessing, earnest prayers, the love of God, and the sweet
presence of Christ to you and yours
You have suffered a grief which no human friend can assuage
I feel deeply your misfortune
I am grieved to hear that——
We are greatly concerned about——
We are sometimes called to sow in tears, but the harvest will be a
series of everlasting joys. This blessed hope softens the trials of
life
My times are in the Lord’s hands
I hope it may please God to endue us with a proper temper, and quiet
perseverance, and that these trials may help us to purify our
motives
One of the severest and most trying dispensations of Providence
Yours is indeed deep sorrow
You have the blessed reflection of having done all that could possibly
be done
You have my earnest prayers that the Almighty may graciously support
you
That the Almighty may bless, support, and comfort you, is the hearty
prayer of——
Be assured of our cordial esteem and fervent prayers
May every consolation and blessing be granted to you
As long as I shall remember anything, I shall remember her virtues and
her kindness
I hope I need not tell you how anxious I have been since I first heard
of your great loss
May I share with you the deep sorrow you are called upon to bear at the
loss of your——
Please accept for yourself my assurance of deep sympathy
Allow me to express my very sincere sympathy for you in the death of
your——
Permit me to express on behalf of ———— and myself our deepest sympathy
May I express to you my sincere condolence in your hour of sorrow
Mrs. ———— and I offer you our most sincere sympathy in your great
sorrow
Please accept my heartfelt sympathy in your bereavement
I hope you will find some consolation in the tribute of affection and
esteem which——
I sympathize deeply with you
I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto
him against that day.
_II Tim._ I., 12
The resurrection of life.
_John_ V., 29
Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of
man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
_I Cor._ II., 9
In my father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have
told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
_John_ XIV., 2
There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the
righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but
unto all them also that love his appearing.
_II Tim._ IV., 8
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
_Heb._ IV., 9
We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness.
_II Pet._ III., 13
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
_Rev._ II., 10
They shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.
_Rev._ III., 4
There shall be no night there.
_Rev._ XXII., 5
The Lord shall be thy everlasting light and the days of thy mourning
shall be ended.
_Isa._ LX., 20
He is able to present you faultless before the presence of his glory
with exceeding joy.
_Jude_, 24
The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with
the glory which shall be revealed in us.
_Rom._ VIII., 18
Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
_II Cor._ IV., 17
The riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.
_Eph._ I., 18
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not
away.
_I Pet._ I., 4
So shall we ever be with the Lord.
_I Thess._ IV., 17
They shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads.
_Rev._ XXII., 4
The righteous shall go away into life eternal.
_Matt._ XXV., 46
Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine
heart.
_Ps._ XXVII., 14
The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that
trust in him shall be desolate.
_Ps._ XXXIV., 22
The Lord knoweth them that trust in him.
_Nah._ I., 7
Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you.
_I Pet._ V., 7
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about
his people from hence forth even for ever.
_Ps._ CXXV., 2
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
_Ps._ CXII., 6
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
_Ps._ XXX., 5
Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him
out of them all.
_Ps._ XXXIV., 19
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and
weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
_Ps._ CXXVI., 5-6
Their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any
more.
_Jer._ XXXI., 12
I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make
them rejoice from their sorrow.
_Jer._ XXXI., 13
A refuge in times of trouble.
_Ps._ IX., 9
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I
have overcome the world.
_John_ XVI., 33
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his
holy habitation.
_Ps._ LXVIII., 5
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
_Ps._ CXVI., 15
My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in
weakness.
_II Cor._ XII., 9
I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.
_Gen._ XV., 1
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
_Deut._ XXXIII., 27
The promise of life which is in Christ Jesus.
_II Tim._ I., 1
A bruised reed shall he not break.
_Isa._ XLII., 3
For Letters of Congratulation
I take great pleasure in sending hearty congratulations and best wishes
It is with heartfelt pleasure I——
I cannot refrain from sending a few words of congratulation that——
We offer you our cordial congratulations and best wishes
My most sincere congratulations are yours
I hope in a few days to be able to offer my congratulations in person
Accept hearty congratulations
With most sincere congratulations
I write to offer my heartfelt congratulations
You will receive many hearty congratulations but none more sincere than
mine
It must have been a great joy to you. I heartily congratulate you
I applaud you
For Letters of Introduction
It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you ————
I take this opportunity of presenting to you ————
I take great pleasure in making known to you ————
This letter is presented by my friend ————
I shall regard it as a kindness to myself if——
Any courtesy you can extend to ————
I shall appreciate any assistance you may give to ————
I shall regard any attention you can pay ———— as a personal favor
I shall warmly appreciate any attention you may pay to ————
For Letters of Invitation
Will you give us the pleasure of your company to——
I am asking a few friends to——
It would be a pleasure to have you——
Will you join us in——
The pleasure of your company is requested to——
Hoping that your engagements will permit
In anticipation of seeing you next——
———— requests the presence of ————
———— requests the pleasure of your presence at——
For Letters of Regret
I write at once to thank you, regretting most sincerely that——
I very much regret that I cannot accept your kind invitation to——
I regret that a previous engagement will prevent my acceptance of your
very kind invitation to——
I very much regret that I cannot avail myself of the opportunity to——
I am grateful to you for your kind invitation, but——
I regret that I am unable to comply with your request because——
I regret extremely that——
For Letters of Thanks
Please accept my grateful acknowledgments for——
I will ever cherish your beautiful gift
My compliments and thanks to ————
Thank you most heartily for the——
Many thanks for the——
With hearty thanks for your kind thought of me
Best of thanks for your kind thought of me
I cannot express my thanks for the kindness which prompted you to——
Many thanks for the kind remembrance
With grateful appreciation for——
Thank you most heartily for——
How can I ever hope to repay you for——
I am extremely grateful to you for——
I am sending this letter as the silent messenger of my thanks and good
wishes to you
I must find some way to make due acknowledgment of your goodness to me
I trust I may be able to do you some service, that I may be worthy of
your kind approbation
I will not write more but wait until a better opportunity enables me to
more fully express myself
Please allow me to send my most thankful acknowledgments for the favor
you have conferred upon me
I know not how to express my grateful thanks for your——
The grateful sense I have of your kindness will never be erased from my
mind
I take this first opportunity to send you my thanks for——
You have exceedingly obliged me by——
I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of——
I am grateful to you for your kind expression of sympathy
Though your kind letter has waited so long for a reply, you may be
assured that I was not unmindful of its messages of sympathy
Please accept my warmest thanks for your kindness
I am deeply indebted to you for——
I received your very agreeable letter, and hasten to give you my most
hearty thanks for your——
I thank you for your hospitality
We had a most delightful time while with you
For Letters with Gifts
Please accept this little memento of our regard
Please accept this ———— as a token of high esteem and regard
Please accept as an evidence of unchanging friendship this ————
Please accept this token with my best wishes for many happy returns of
your birthday
Will you be so kind as to accept the enclosed ————
I am sending to you a little token of my high regard
(CONCLUDING ASSURANCES)
For Christmas Letters
I send you tender tidings of regard this Christmas Day
I hope you will lack nothing to make a Merry Christmas
On this day I think of you, and wish you happiness without limit
May all joys combine to give you a happy Christmas Day
With best wishes and heartiest greetings for Christmas
I wish you a joyful Christmas from the bottom of my heart
With kind remembrances and all good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a
Bright New Year
With best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a New Year of health and
happiness
The best of good wishes for a happy Christmas
May Christmas bring you plenteous store of happiness and joy
Heaps of Christmas wishes
With the kindest thoughts and the best of good wishes for a happy
Christmas
I heartily send all good Christmas wishes to you and yours
For Letters of Condolence
My prayer is that you may be wonderfully sustained by Him who hath
said, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Most sincerely yours,
I commend you to Him who hath said, “There shall be no more death,
neither sorrow.”
Affectionately yours,
May you have great comfort in the presence of Him who hath said, “I
will not leave you destitute.”
Your friend,
Ever remember the good word which tells us that “He shall change our
vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all
things unto himself.”
Faithfully yours,
Though we pass through the valley and the darkness of death let us fear
no evil since He is with us.
Ever your friend,
God gives us a fine assurance concerning the future in the word which
says, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.”
Most sincerely yours,
With a prayer for every blessing on your self,
Affectionately, your friend,
Be assured of our cordial esteem and fervent prayers.
Very sincerely yours,
May God that comforteth those that are cast down comfort you in this
trial is the prayer of
Your friend,
We can meet the trials of life in the comforting conviction that this
mortal must put on immortality.
With warmest regards,
No doubt you are inclined to say that all is vanity and vexation of
spirit, but do not do so for He knoweth the way that we take.
Faithfully yours,
Now that the time has come that you are “Like Niobe, all tears” also
the rather remember the word which says that “God shall wipe away
all tears.”
Most sincerely yours,
We send our love and commend you to Him who hath said He will “Swallow
up death in victory.”
Most sincerely yours,
While your heart is heavy, and one feel quite deserted, yet we can be
much comforted in remembering that “He knoweth our frame.” and is
ever mindful of us.
With sincere sympathy,
Your friend,
For New Year Letters
May this New Year turn out to be the happiest and the best
With best New Year wishes
May all your plans and wishes come true in this New Year
May the New Year be a happy year for you
A joyous New Year
With all best wishes for a splendid New Year
With all the kindest wishes for good health and good fortune throughout
the year
With my most hearty greetings and sincere good wishes for you for all
the coming year
With best wishes for a year of great blessing
May the New Year be full of the kindliest benedictions
With kind wishes for a year of the brightest prospects
For General Letters
I am ever, with sincerest regard,
Your friend,
Remember me very kindly to ————
Sincerely,
I beg to be most kindly remembered to ————
With cordial regard,
Accept the sincerest esteem of
Your friend,
My compliments to your ————
Very sincerely,
With sincere regard,
With kindest respects to your whole family,
Yours affectionately,
I beg you will give my affectionate respects to all.
Most cordially yours,
———— best and kindest wishes accompany mine.
Most sincerely,
With truest regard,
With my best wishes for your recovery, and kindest regard to ————
I remain, affectionately yours,
———— joins me in kindest regards and best wishes.
Sincerely yours,
Kind remembrance to all, and doubly to ————.
As ever,
If you are at ————, remember me kindly to ————
Yours ever,
Give my kind respects to ————
Very sincerely yours,
We join in affectionate regards to ————
Sincerely,
———— present their respects, with those of
Yours truly,
———— desire me to add their kind regards to mine,
Your affectionate friend,
With truest good wishes.
As ever,
When you see ———— assure ———— of my kind remembrance.
Sincerely yours,
With my best regards to ————
I remain your friend,
With our joint regards to ————, I am ever,
Yours sincerely,
My most affectionate respects to ————
Yours sincerely,
With kindest regards of my family and myself,
I am sincerely yours,
Yours ever, my dear and honored friend, with true regard,
———— desires particularly to be remembered.
Yours ever,
With every sentiment of regard.
Your greatly obliged friend,
With truest sentiments of affectionate esteem.
Your friend,
———— sends her best love.
Yours ever most affectionately,
———— joins in every kind wish and remembrance.
Yours ever,
With cordial wishes for your health,
I am,
Yours very sincerely,
My best respects to ————
Very faithfully yours,
———— is away or I should have been charged with ———— kindest regards to
you.
Very sincerely,
My best respects and kindest remembrances to the whole family circle
at ————
Very sincerely yours,
We unite in kindest remembrance to your family.
Sincerely yours,
———— begs her most affectionate remembrance to you.
Affectionately yours,
(FINAL ASSURANCES)
Conventional
Very sincerely yours,
Yours most sincerely,
Very respectfully,
Sincerely yours,
Respectfully yours,
To Friends
Yours faithfully,
Yours affectionately,
Heartily yours,
Yours in all fellowship,
Warmly your friend,
Your affectionate friend,
Yours ever truly,
Ever warmly yours,
With warmest regards,
Yours in heart,
For Lovers
All yours,
As ever,
Your own,
Yours forever and ever,
Ever with the whole heart yours,
Most devotedly yours,
Yours constantly,
Yours ever,
Ever yours,
Yours, with love,
To Relatives
Your loving ————,
Affectionately your ————,
Your devoted ————,
With much love,
Your ever loving ————,
Devotedly your ————,
With much affection, your ————,
LIKENESS
Similarity Resemblance
As like as two peas
A striking parallel
As like as two drops of water
Nearly identical in appearance
The same in essential characteristics
Cast in the same mold
A striking similitude between——
Having a very close resemblance
A speaking likeness
It is somewhat analogous to——
It typifies most perfectly the——
With a very exact resemblance
There is no material difference between——
Terms which will be tantamount to——
Have you been struck with the similarity between——
It bears an evident analogy to——
Cut out of the same cloth
You can make it tally with——
LOSS
Damage Waste
This particular milk has been spilt
Incalculable waste and loss will be avoided if——
Doomed to ethical decline
Irreparable loss
Rapidly sapping the strength of——
In the blackness of darkness forever
Where does it end
LOVE
Attachment Affection
He’s the great heart-maker
Winsomely and lovingly
The sacrifices of love
Matchless kindness
Unwavering love
A redeeming love-energy
A glad service of love
A legacy of love
A flame of sacred love
The sweet kingdom of God’s love
The wondrous story of God’s love
The wonderful words of life
The genial flame of affection
The marvel of His love
The love that conquers
Love divine, all loves excelling
The glorious sense of the Divine right of love
Made beautiful by Divine love
The warm yearning intimacy of God’s love
The sweet and unpolluted flower of love
The richest joys out of heaven
If our bosom burns with the fires of love
Love that translated us from alienation to family favor
Love, pure, warm, and changeless
Songs of redeeming love
An eye of love
A heaven of love
Abounding love
With undiminished love
Love is the universal language
What the world needs is love
MANLY
Strong Upright
The sanctifying love of a strong victorious man
A patient, loving, uncomplaining soul
A clear-eyed seer of the things of God
An uncompromising foe of evil
Sagacious in spiritual things
A mind full of vigorous hopeful uplifting thoughts
He has a wonderful experience of grace
He passed through the fires of affliction
He is a graduate of the University of Difficulty
We are resolved to lay no stumbling-blocks in the way of the progress
of the redemption of the world
We have the abiding consciousness that we are fundamentally right with
God
He is in the apostleship of spiritual beauty
A great lover of mankind
He takes a living, loving interest in men
Moral worth
Resolved not to depart from the channel of truth
Holy in character
A warmth of temperament
Generous impulses
The imposing grace of a noble self-restraint
A chaste refinement of spirit
Splendid reserve power
Well content to go down to the grave unpraised
Taking steps toward the threshold of heaven
Walking in the blessed path of peace, power, and purity
A nobility of life
Worthy of more attention than it has yet received
A worthy friend
Hands full of character and delicacy
With unfaltering lip and heart
Men who love their fellow-men and prove their love by service
He did not once deviate from his principles
He has a profound contempt for show and humbug
Men broad-brained and broad-shouldered for the task
Men of breadth of outlook
Men who foresee great things
Large-hearted and clear-eyed men
Real leaders
Men who keep in the straight path of duty
Every man shall bear his own burden
Men whose fidelity merits the highest praise
Men who would dare hell-heat or Arctic cold
Men whose intentions were never open to honest doubt
A man whose happiness was in serving others
Strong men
Untinged by prejudice
Clouded by no unfriendliness
Without acrimony
With no preconceived theories
In whole-hearted simplicity
Above suspicion
With entire frankness
No feeling of estrangement
A gleam of friendly light
The right mental attitude
The right hand of fellowship
In the sunshine of a genial nature
In the genial glow of the firelight
Of gentle mien
The contagion of noble lives
A rare maturity of judgment
He has an unswerving loyalty to principle
He has an unconquerable purpose to be true
He is unfalteringly devoted to duty
He is inflexible in purpose
He is not paralysed by fear of consequences
He is beautifully loyal to——
He is proof against all blandishments
He sits tight in the saddle
MEMORIES
Impressions Sentiments
Among the most haunting memories of——
I treasure the memory of it as one of my most precious recollections
A time full of happy memories
I brought away with me a store of happy memories
Rich in historical memories
It moves me to happy memories
It entitles him to grateful remembrance
There are no disturbing reminders
They can console themselves with the reflection that——
It was reminiscent of——
I have many choice recollections of——
Etched forever by the——
MILITARISTIC
Martial Soldierly
The zone of hostilities