"The difference between shallow happiness and a deep,……" — Walter Wangerin
"The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us."
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Walter Wangerin
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12 Quotes by Walter Wangerin
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It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my…
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God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is…
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Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.
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Gloria, Gloria! they cry, for their song embraces all that the Lord has begun this day: Glory to God in…
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So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither…
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I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither…
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Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
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