Distressed Quotes

97 Distressed quotes by 82 unique authors

If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy… — Laurence Sterne
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is… — Brennan Manning
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I… — Khalil Gibran
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we canâ€™t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense… — John Dufresne
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when… — Aristotle
Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and… — John Bunyan
The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed. — Unknown Author
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked... — Mary Wortley Montagu
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. — John Flavel
The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability — Confucius
We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through no fault of… — John Cassian
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. — Elbridge Gerry
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses… — Nancy Mairs
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum. — Carl Jung
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt. — Clare Boothe Luce
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy,… — Cecelia Ahern
We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.… — Woodrow Wilson
In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise. — Mother Teresa

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