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“Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.”

Joy Suffering Grief Christianity Thousand

Author:Herman Melville

“The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be fully engaged in the character's experience. What does this mean to them? How are they changed by it, or not? I remember being a little nervous, as I am when writing any high-stakes, intense scene (death, sex, grief, joy).”

Writing Mean Littles Doe Character Jobs Remember Joy Sex Grief Changed Truth Is Scene Intense Nervous Engaged Dull Stakes Writing Love

Author:Madeline Miller

“Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.”

Inspirational Joy Friendship Grief Half

Author:Francis Bacon

“Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.”

Heart May Joy Lying Friendship Grief True Friend Impart

Author:Francis Bacon

“Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.”

Mind Heart Seems Joy Waiting Loss Grief Impossible Sorrow Empty Void Heart And Mind Fill The Void

Book:Wishing You Happiness

Source: Wishing You Happiness

“I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'”

Thinking Feels Kind Joy Guy Stuff Dark Grief Darkness Honest Noses Descent Upbeat Requiem

Author:Andre Dubus

“We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.”

Wells Soul Pain Joy Grief Attention Awareness Sorrow Laughter Silly Pay Attention Frightening Expanding Enlightening Soul Work

Author:Matthew Fox

“Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.”

Heart May Past Moving Joy Speak Memories Forget Grief Tree Sea Sky Fields Flower Broken Rivers Gold Green Pity Unseen Folds Ripple Gleam Heart Broke Mead Glisten

Author:William Morris

“In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good it is not surprising if there are explosions.”

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.”

Should Joy Sin Grief Forgiveness

Book:A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures

Source: A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures