“God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.” ThinkingMenGivingEndsFitPromiseMisery Author:Robert Herrick
“If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.” IfsEndsPromiseMiseryRateOur SocietyAffluentSumptuous Author:John W. Gardner
“I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.” WayMadeSchoolActingSawsPromiseMiseryStuckHopkinsSchool Life Author:Anthony Hopkins
“The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.” MenWritingHandsLightMightEarthMotherFatherHeavenDarkCitiesCuttingLandPromiseBedOceanShadowEmptyMachinesWingsMiseryWestEastPoisonBritainIronThronesCrowdedBarrenFather In HeavenSpatsFalse PromisesCrowded Cities Book:That Hideous Strength Source: That Hideous Strength
“Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.” KindPersonsSeemsMightExistenceCasesPromiseOvercomingMiseryPossessionRageCertaintyInsecurityFormulasMagnificentAssuranceFutilityBenevolent Author:Christopher Hitchens
“We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.” ThinkingWorldWayShowsPainSufferingJesusChristLordPromiseGloryCrossesOvercomingMiseryNotionRemoveClosest Author:Stephen R. Lawhead