Claims Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

— Epictetus

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

— Blaise Pascal

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

— Jacopo Sannazaro

The God of the Bible takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself

— Timothy Keller

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he…

— Vernon Howard

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

— Saint Augustine

“When a person is miserable, wretched, and unhappy in himself, put him in what circumstances you please, and he is wretched still. If a…

— Heber C. Kimball

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

— Thomas Paine

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

— James Boswell

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

— Anonymous