Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Ever since you knew your power, You made me cry, And now everytime our love goes sour, You won't sympathize, You see… — Beyonce Copy Share Image
“memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies,… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Gabriel Edward Mackie, born with soulful maturity and an intrinsic sense of empathy, gazed at life through a poetic contemplative lens relishing… — JoDee Neathery Copy Share Image
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“This was it; the Mystery of The Unseen, the Gate of Sorrow, that leads to the Grace of the Redeemer. I pressed… — Kurban Said Copy Share Image
I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“oh, how I wish that I could give him what Daddy takes so easily from me. But it would be a tainted… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
“A trouble - nothing as beautiful as a sorrow - rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank.… — Edward Morgan Forster Copy Share Image
“I lay in the pile, rolling through his slight scent, which I pretended was still there. I whispered his name, as if… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blackfish, the otter, the beaver.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness.… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
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![“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too. As I thought more about it in the bleak days and weeks that followed, I decided the Bible had gotten it exactly backward. Maybe God hadn't…” quote by Bill Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a50/bill-bass-77319_atheism_all-my-life-i-d-been-a-believing-christi_222687.jpg)
