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“What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?”

Ifs Men Mind Soul Dream Reality Pain Harm Ease Bleaching

Author:Bette Lord

“Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.”

Giving Stills Soul Pain Lord Tears Masters Pride Please Shapes Vain Fiery Cupid Rave

Author:Bryan Procter

“The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.”

Knows Soul Body Pain Names Cry Limits Vain Nerves No Pain Bandages

Author:Vanna Bonta

“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.”

Soul Self Christian Pain Struggle Perfection Perpetual Flowering

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.”

Ifs Soul Pain Choices Causes Consequence Trauma Harm

Author:Gary Zukav

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this agony from us. He needs it for souls and for our soul... Alas, it does pain Him to give us sorrows to drink, but He knows this is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself and to become God's ourselves.”

Knows Needs Giving Mean Doe Soul Pain Religious Sorrow Drink Agony Preparing Affliction Alas Begging

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.”

Years Heart Soul Pain Joy Passion Poor Break Sadness Sad Sorry Hunger Graves I'm Sorry Strain Crave Weeping Barren Tasting

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.”

Knows Men Inspirational Soul Moments Inspiration Pain Asks Loss Sweet Praying Sorrow Gains Lifetime Morrow

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance of the evil he has done, you will stop the advance of the passion. And when you have attained brotherly love and love for mankind, you will completely cast this passion out of your soul. Then when someone else does evil to you, be affectionate and humble toward him, and treat him kindly, and you will deliver him from this passion.”

“If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.”

Ifs Soul Pain Pure Despair Favors Karma Wander Latter Rejoice Latter Days

Author:Josephus

“They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.”

Soul Pain Past Healing Laughed Expecting Torment Scorn Past Life Resigned Alacrity

Author:Josephus

“After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love.”

Humans Soul Pain Suffering Common Grief Wounds Permanent Buried Transcendent Human Suffering Physical Pain

Author:Andre Dubus

“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

“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.”

May Said Soul Ends Whole Moments Body Eye Age Pain Suffering Millions Hell Alive Possibility Smart Ears Extremes Mythology Intense Instant Torment Trembling Duration Fainting Intermission

Author:John Wesley

“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.”

Knows World Way Humans Made Soul Might Pain Known Limits Seeking Warmth Human Soul Liable Mindless Visitation All The Pretty Horses

Book:All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“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

“Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.”

Soul Pain Comfort Immortality Emptiness Abasement

Book:Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life

Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life

“Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.”

Soul Pain Turns Please Your Soul Wheels Anguish Destined Up And Down Wheel Of Life

Book:Works of Kalidasa: Kayva

Source: Works of Kalidasa: Kayva

“He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.”

Ifs Feels Heart Soul Pain Fall Tears Green Woods Neighbor Wounds Salt No Point Opium Vinegar

Book:The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

“You are full of love. You love with all of your soul. It's brighter than the fire ... blinding. That's why you pull away from it ... Love is pain ... Love ... give ... forgive. Risk the pain. It is your nature.”

Giving Soul Pain Love Is Fire Risk Love You Forgiving Your Soul Brighter Love Pain Love Is Pain

Author:Jane Espenson

“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.”