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Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.”

Thinking World War Ends Age Opportunity Challenges Creativity Issues Alive Economic Exciting Crisis Wide Eras Glorious Cynicism Distress Catastrophe Scope Vigorous Turmoil Lawlessness

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“The family is the world's greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family's welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world's most successful operation by an incomparable margin.”

“The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.”

Poor Economy Rich Seasons Combination Unfair Distress

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

“The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.”

World Church Trouble Holy Roots Flesh Ghost Distress Holy Ghost

Book:The Way to Pentecost

Source: The Way to Pentecost

“Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.”

Believe Made Matter Character Spiritual Prove Happenings Standing Opposites No Matter What Trials Prophet Loyal Agony Distress

Book:Faith: A Holy Walk

Source: Faith: A Holy Walk

“If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.”

Ifs Periods Behavior Psychological Substance Dependent Distress Symptoms Craving Withdrawal Relapse

Book:The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.”

Spirit Worry Virtue Ease Distress Sage Tao Calmness Detachment

Author:Zhuangzi

“I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.”

Want Littles Action Let Me Scream Distress Balconies Damsel In Distress

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.”

Next Land Grew Summer Dear Distress Corn Dear God

Book:Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

Source: Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

“Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.”

Mind Heart Soul Next Sin Trouble Anxiety Judgment Thee Distress Stains

Author:William Bernard Ullathorne

“When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.”