“The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. When I sing, 'I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry -- Yes, I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry,'... what I'm doing is letting my soul out.” HeartSoulFeelingsHandsHurtAnswersWalksCrySingingSacredMy Soul Author:Alberta Hunter
“The answer to our cry which God gave in Jesus infinitely transcends our expectations, achieving a solidarity which cannot be human alone, but divine. Only the God who is love, and the love which is God, could choose to save us in this way, which is certainly the lengthiest way, yet the way which respects the truth about him and about us: the way of reconciliation, dialogue and cooperation.” WayHumansJesusAnswersAchieveCryDivineExpectationsDialogueCooperationSolidarityReconciliation Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.” MenWorldAsksNationsChurchAnswersCuttingCryBrotherBlessedEvery ManHungryAbundance Author:Pope Paul VI
“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.” IfsThinkingNeedsYearsBelieveLooksChildrenTwoMightAgeYoungParentAnswersWatchesImpossibleHuman NatureSelf EsteemCryJudgingMonthsEmbraceLongingAssumingParentingSpeciesRebelDisgustingEldersImpatienceRaising ChildrenYoung ChildrenDisdainBad Parenting Author:Jean Liedloff
“Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.” HumansPersonsMadeIndividualSimpleAnswersRaceSituationCryIndiaSouthRaisedComplexesExcuseThese DaysHuman RaceComplexityStride Author:Pearl S. Buck
“Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen.” SelfSometimesWaitingAnswersPerfectCryReleaseTake TimeIgnored Book:Yoga Source: Yoga
“Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.” WantHeartSoulReasonReligionAnswersSilenceCryCreationAspiration Book:Aspirations of nature Source: Aspirations of nature
“Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, "Be good." Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, "Help!"” PeopleDoeDoneHelpingStoriesAsksJesusHeavenAnswersGraceCryDependsBe Good Book:What's So Amazing about Grace? Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?