Captives Quote by Gregory of Nyssa

“little acquaintance with our own hearts will force us to acknowledge that there is no hope within us, and the briefest glance around should…

— A.W. Tozer

“Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sorrows, and the hungerings,…

— Charles Dickens

“It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology — rather, they mentioned suffering. “People said they…

— Philip Yancey

“At birth, they’d been charged by God with the responsibility of growing into total fuckups. Had they chosen this? Was it their fault, as…

— George Saunders

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more…

— Georges Duhamel

This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to…

— Clare Vanderpool

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

— Ernest Shackleton

. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should…

— Thomas Cole

“ In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed…

— Jack Canfield

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

— Anne Rice

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

— Alexandra David-Neel