“There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.” MenWorldInspirationalYearsLooksHeartChildrenGodHelpingStoriesChristianPainPurposeSufferingBrokenTasksOur ChildrenLifetimeInjusticeDearChristian InspirationalInstantMeaning Of LifeCriedDistressMarvelousAnguishHeart BreakDear GodGod Has A PlanHeart BreakingBroken WorldInjustice In The World Author:David Wolpe
“It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer... Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.” IfsDoeDonePainLastsFightingEasyRealizingStruggleTearsRageInstantPairsSequenceParallelsCorrelationAgonizing Author:Vera Nazarian
“Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.” MenRealityPainSoundChurchLinesInstantRepeatsColourEtcYellowTemperatureOne Line Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.” ThinkingPainNightLostBlackLonelinessFleshInstantThinking Of YouUnendurable Book:The Collected Shorter Poems Source: The Collected Shorter Poems
“Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.” BelieveDoePainBeliefCausesParticularClimateAddictionAdvertisingDenialSubstanceInstantBoredomEmptinessAddictGratificationInstant GratificationFalse HopeQuick FixesEmptiness Inside Author:Jean Kilbourne
“I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.” PeopleGivingShouldLongHas BeensMomentsPainOrderWaitingSpaceWorryReadyForgivenessAdvantageForgivingInstantWoundedTime And SpaceRight MomentWronged Author:Lewis B. Smedes
“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.” WayWellsDreamPainFacesFeltWaterHurtSeeingBrokenDepressionReflectionSickIllnessLegsMental IllnessRealizationRememberedKneesInstantYour FaceStomachIt HurtsFragmentsBroken LegMental Pain Author:Tracy Thompson
“Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.” MaySaidSoulEndsWholeMomentsBodyEyeAgePainSufferingMillionsHellAlivePossibilitySmartEarsExtremesMythologyIntenseInstantTormentTremblingDurationFaintingIntermission Author:John Wesley