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“To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.”

Mind Firsts Humans May Ideas Pain Process Accepting Failing Source Higher Findings Concepts Wide Opening Confusion Human Mind Splits Offensive Unseen Unpredictable Pretentious Intellectualism

Author:Criss Jami

“He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Doe Pain Desire Certain Waiting Know How Successful Failing Contrary Desperate Impatient Obtaining

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The heart of God through his creation stirs, We thrill to feel it, trembling as the flowers That die to live again, his messengers, To keep faith firm in these sad souls of ours. The waves of Time may devastate our lives, The frosts of age may check our failing breath, They shall not touch the spirit that survives Triumphant over doubt and pain and death.”

Feels Heart May Soul Age Pain Spirit Dies Doubt Our Lives Failing Creation Flower Breaths Wave Checks Firm Thrill Trembling Frost Messengers Triumphant Keep The Faith Sad Soul

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.”

Pain Too Much Imagine Failing

Book:The Empathy Exams: Essays

Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays

“Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.”

People Ifs Knows Want Sometimes Seems Would Be Pain Games Winning Heaven Pay Failing Atheism Right Now Misery Fortune Positive Atheism Packages

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.”

Giving Believe Doe Pain Spirit Animal Failing Please Weak Faculty Vegetables Perfume Boast Fragrance Revive Offending Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.”

Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author

“... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.”

Ifs Humans Able Pain Certain Found Process Born Lines Human Beings Failing Eternal Relation Mathematics Symbols Angle Manipulate Geometry Human Relations

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.”

Ifs Doe Pain Causes Failing Laughter Consequence Ugly Ridiculous Defects Countenance

Author:Aristotle

“Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.”

Ifs Way Soul Bigs Might Happens Pain Spiritual Culture Easy Darkness Virtue Failing Journey Essentials Victim Refuse Allowing Healer Admitting Spiritual Journey

Author:Matthew Fox

“Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.”

Should Reality Pain Grows Views Our Lives Failing Trouble Expectations Point Of View Bitterness

Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.”

“Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.”

Ifs Pain Suffering Opportunity Left Growth Responsibility Failing Effects Blame Inevitable Taking Responsibility Great Opportunity Stagnant

Author:Romany Malco

“We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."”

Ifs Want Writing Trying Wells Enough Dream Pain Pleasure Failing Achieve Smart Driven Educated Attractive Rejection Our Dreams Stop Trying Well Educated

Author:Tony Robbins