Best Distress Thoughts
406 Distress quotes by 318 unique authors
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Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas…
— Richard Cobden
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The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity and peace, and free it from confusion and distress
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your…
— Epictetus
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When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and…
— Adolf Hitler
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Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.
— John Flavel
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Everything that is loved, if it is not loved for His sake then this love is nothing but distress and punishment. Every action that is…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.
— Billy Graham
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The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the…
— Chris Prentiss
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A deep distress has humanised my soul.
— William Wordsworth
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No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans and expectations. It is a separation from all we…
— J C Ryle
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We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory…
— Jan Chozen Bays
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When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to…
— Sigourney Weaver
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It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like…
— Julia Sawalha
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This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.
— CJ Roberts
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Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood…
— Peter O'Toole
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Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will…
— John Bunyan
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If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So…
— Solon
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And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to…
— John Woolman
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People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It…
— Carl Jung
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Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them,…
— Vincent de Paul
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I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my…
— Omar Khayyam
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Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people…
— Donna Brazile
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