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“One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'”

Reason Might Spiritual Suffering Speak Failing Reason Why

Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.”

Should Suffering Wish Causes Loss Healing Clear Failing Destruction Saint Vices Accepted Supreme Sinner Plot Remedy Good Health True Life Rebuke

Author:Saint Basil

“Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.”

Persons Soul Facts Suffering Natural Failing Effects Treats Assuming Tendencies Misfortunes Unfortunate Catastrophe Vocation

Book:War and the Iliad

Source: War and the Iliad

“The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.”

Self Moving Suffering Failing Rivers Shining Life Changing True Self

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion. Whenever it fails, it never recovers, but either breaks like iron, or crumbles sulkily away, like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their sufferings and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.”

Firsts Suffering Passion Break Failing Periods Resources Wounds Cures Mortals Iron Fatigue Arches Obstinacy

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.”

Thinking Important Feelings Suffering Community Space Failing Cry Expression Okay Happy Life Sad Day Expression Of Feeling

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.”

Heart Long Suffering Justice Race Compassion Failing Special Hatred Warm African American Developing American Woman African American Women Afros Long Suffering

Author:Fannie Barrier Williams

“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

Ifs Way Suffering Loss Virtue Failing Youth Findings Deny Criminals Vehement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

“Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off elaborate hoaxes. But while Santa and the bunny suffer the derision of eight year olds everywhere, actively-managed stock funds still have an ardent following among otherwise clear-thinking adults. This continued loyalty amazes me. Reams of statistics prove that most of the fund industry's stock pickers fail to beat the market.”

“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .”

“I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.”

Feels Trying Humans Mean Different States Might Suffering Understanding Failing Judging Reader Succeed Excuse Disappoint What It Means To Be Human Quick To Judge

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.”

Thinking Want Moments Suffering Causes Realizing Failing Conflict Happenings Cures Resisting Interpersonal

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.”

Knows Believe Kind Doe Self Reason Suffering Order Belief Wish Know How Failing Criticism Faults Excuse Vanity Self Criticism Overboard

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities.”

Doe Spirit Suffering Understanding Quality Failing Appreciate Embrace Appreciation Good Quality

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“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