Blessing Quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

— Marquis de Sade

From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy…

— Bertrand Russell

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

— Albert Camus

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

— Honore de Balzac

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

— Alexandra David-Neel

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.

— Edna Hong

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care.…

— Anne Perry

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

— Honore de Balzac

Certain people aren't blessings in disguise, until they walk away.

— Anonymous

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

— Francois Fenelon

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use…

— Thomas Merton