“True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.” WisdomSufferingSinSadnessOvercomingTouchedTrue Wisdom Book:Witness Source: Witness
“We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.” WorldMeanEndsTimeRealizingMemoriesSinSecretGoneSadnessWillingLateClaimsStrangerPassingAdmirePassingsToo LateTime PassingTime PassesSecret LifeAdmiringInsufficiency Author:Alexander Theroux
“Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.” IfsKnowsWayGivingMindLooksHeartLightEyeTurnsPrayerSinAttentionLordSadnessPromiseFilledLimitationFixedChanging Your LifeFullnessDiscouragement Author:Pope John Paul II
“I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.” KnowsSinEmotionSadnessHappiness Sadness Author:Jane Goodall
“My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.” ThinkingFirstsIdeasMy OwnSinVirtueSadnessHumilityOptimismActivePityShockRepentanceRejoiceAmendmentsConcreteAssistanceCheerfulApostolicRestitutionDisobeying Author:C. S. Lewis
“How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?” HeartMayChristSinChristianityLordSadnessBrokenSadHeartbreakBroken HeartHeart Break Author:Oscar Wilde
“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.” WellsLittlesDreamLostHoursPrayerSleepSinToo MuchPiecesSadnessMinutesColdGayLet MeBlessedDearWarmHungryLiarsSincereTruthfulHonorableBrooklynDear GodBeing TruthfulDeceitfulRaggedWell Dressed Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.” LightWould BeRememberPassionJesusLostSinSadnessSacredComplainingSavedMeritDivinitySinnerHopelessContemplatingUnfortunateMultitudesPredestination Author:Brigit of Kildare
“Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.” Has BeensSinSadnessPossibilityDespairForgivingMiseryRefuseForgivenUnforgivableSins NotUnforgivable Sin Author:Frederick Buechner
“Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness.” PersonsRealHappinessSinVirtueSadnessMiserableUnhappinessBeing RealTantraHappy PersonOthers Happiness Author:Rajneesh
“Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.” SinSadnessSorrowServing God Author:Mother Teresa
“Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.” SinDarknessSadnessCampaignsBeachFrustration Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.” WorldCareChristianSpiritTurnsSinSadnessSorrowConceptsSevenDon't CareSexyFleshTheologyDescriptionSlothRottingDeadly SinsChristian TheologySeven Deadly SinsSeven Sins Author:Mishka
“As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.” SinSadnessBirdPicksBreadWickedGatesPreyEdenCrumbsBirds Of PreyBread Crumbs Author:Bob Dylan
“I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.” WholeAsksSinLordSadnessCryShameBurnedAshes Author:Rebecca St. James
“I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.” SoulSinSadnessLonelinessStrangerLustWelcomeGuiltyMy SoulLow Self EsteemSadness And Loneliness Author:Madonna Ciccone