“Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.” WorldCountryWatchesTroubleSacrificeMankindDutySafetySacredLocalsBelovedMotiveConsiderationHonorablePosterityAgitateBeloved Country Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.” MenLoveMayEyeSufferingTroubleHuman NatureMastersSacredRateTiesLove Life Book:The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.” SelfChristianJoySpiritSufferingOpportunityGivenAttitudeTroubleSorrowDifficultyRegardSacredReactionsPityResentmentCrownsThornsSelf PityFatalismGiven Opportunity Author:James Stewart
“Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.” YearsRealMightChoicesFightingSleepWalksStruggleTakenTroublePaidPraiseSacredAbundanceGatesWombDoorwaysOur ChoicesSquad Author:Marge Piercy
“All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.” MenWorldInspirationFaithEvilSoundChurchClearTroubleSeriousSourceFlowSacredChristian InspirationalScriptureConsiderationPenetrateSacred Scripture Author:Teresa of Avila
“The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.” WarFormForceNumbersPrinciplesDemocracyTroubleBloodVictoryTestsArmySacredMajorityBottomCivil WarSubstitutesShedOpposingPacificOratorsMajority Rule Book:Men of Destiny (Ppr) Source: Men of Destiny (Ppr)
“To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state of distress, those to whom we look for help leave us; or what is worse, add to our affliction by heaping fresh troubles upon us. He is ever there waiting to help us.” LooksStatesHelpingSpeakWaitingTroubleBlessedSacredAddDistressSacramentsAfflictionBlessed Sacrament Author:Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
“It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.” KnowsEasyTroubleAcceptanceDutySacredBeing YourselfFlorida Author:Rick Scott
“Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.” IfsPassionJesusChristPrayerTroubleDirectAnd LoveMarkSacredHumbleWoundsHeavenlyContemplatingRefugePassion Of The Christ Author:Thomas a Kempis
“Notwithstanding the trouble, notwithstanding the argument, notwithstanding the increasingly heavy hand of government, notwithstanding the spirit of arrogance we so often display, notwithstanding the growing tide of pornography and permissiveness, notwithstanding occasional corruption in public office and betrayal of sacred trust-I marvel at the miracle of America.” HandsGovernmentAmericaSpiritGrowingTroubleOfficeArgumentMiracleSacredCorruptionHeavyBetrayalArroganceDisplayTidesPornographyOccasionalPublic Office Author:Gordon B. Hinckley