Bitter Quote by Francois Fenelon

“God comes through the wound': Our very imperfections—what religion labels our 'sins,' what therapy calls our 'sickness,' what philosophy terms our 'errors'—are precisely what…

— Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham

“It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others’. But in the presence of God, He gives us…

— Francis Chan

“God always redeems what he allows, even our worst failures—perhaps especially our worst failures. It is through these failures that our pride and self-reliance…

— Kenneth D. Boa

“There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer,…

— Saint John of the Cross

“In the beginning, it is difficult and even painful to see the faults in yourself, the flaws in your soul, the error of your…

— C. JoyBell C

“God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy.”

— Agu, Jaachynma N.E

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. However wrong we…

— Henri Barbusse

“I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those you cannot help.…

— Iris Murdoch

“The believer who doesn’t live in the confidence of God’s sovereignty will lack God’s peace and be left to the chaos of a troubled…

— John F. MacArthur Jr

“To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of…

— Neal A. Maxwell

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual…

— Robert Louis Stevenson