“Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.” GodDeathStarsDyingShooting StarShooting Stars Book:The Little Match Girl Source: The Little Match Girl
“[S]he made haste to light the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother there. And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.” GodPainDeathFamilyColdGrandparentsGrandmothers Book:The Little Match Girl Source: The Little Match Girl
“Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;” GodDeathAcceptanceMourningGod S Will Book:The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen Source: The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen