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“God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.”

Suffering Christ Grief Dying Sick Heal Sickness Sick And Dying God Heals

Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.”

Heart Grief Complaining Sickness Soothing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.”

Body Spirit Sleep Walks Grief Illness Breathe Sickness

Author:Zelda Popkin

“The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.”

Knows Moments Grief Essence Difficulty Medicine Sickness Beaten Kill Me I Trust You Checkmate

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.”

May Self Causes Grief Enemy Doubt Nice Duty Ill Warm Psychological Sickness Relax Cowardice Refuge Blanket Sloth Tempting Ill Health

Author:Patanjali

“But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief.”

Mind Kind Real Mother Suffering Causes Grief Serious Quiet Increase Intense Gentle Proportion Sickness Complaints Restless Sprung Sprung Up

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.”

States Suffering Grief Stage Sorrow Ill Permanent Sickness Unseen Therapists Ill Health Timetables Stages Of Grief

Author:Bel Mooney