Best sorrow & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.”

Source: Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr

“It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength.... the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold.”

Ifs Kind May Mean Character Used Left Wise Sorrow Conflict Elements Gold Disappointment Improvement Metals Providence Arrangements Affliction Crucible Dross

Author:William Morley Punshon

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.”

Firsts Soul Character Suffering Heaven Fire Tears Sorrow Massive Gates Strongest Scar Martyr Robes Sorrowful Coronation Gates Of Heaven

Author:Bill Vaughan

“A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.”

Men World Heart Character Past Wise Type Sorrow Findings Visible Thrown Broads Reverence Luminous Verge Frail Gleam

Book:Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

“The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.”

Has Beens Character Feelings Law Joy Lying Speak Natural Sea Higher Sorrow Eternal Traits Treacherous Higher Power Deceitful

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all-unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense.”

Writing Book Character Beautiful Language Compassion Novel Grace Style Crime Sorrow Brilliant Suspense Demon Plot Throat Finest Uncommon Blunt Unforgettable Crime Novels

Author:Jonathan Kellerman

“Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.”

“Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo”

Ifs Children Character Reading Fiction Sorrow Favors Vampire Compelling Grit Heartbreaking Thrillers Bravo

Author:Christopher Golden

“Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.”

People Character Hands Earth Pain Purpose Suffering Greater Our Lives Perspective Sorrow Depth Surface Accomplishment Yield Shallow Harvest Sufferings In Life

Author:Billy Graham

“Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.”

Ifs Character Suffering Sorrow

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll be in awe. This novel rocks . . . In Girlchild Tupelo Hassman has created a character you'll never forget. Rory Dawn Hendrix of the Calle has as precocious and endearing a voice as Holden Caulfield of Central Park. When you finish this novel, your sorrow at turning the last page will be eased by your excitement at what this sassy, talented author will do next.”

“There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.”

May Character Common Grief Special Sorrow Accepted Submission

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.”

Humans Reason Character Bits My Own Sorrow Aspect Universal Irony Absurdity Human Experience Vulgarity Silliness Work Humor

Author:Anthony Marra

“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”

Ifs Men Enough Character Pain Humanity Evil Literature Common Grief Virtue Conditions Subjects Honesty Integrity Sorrow Treatment Calamity Aggravation Pain And Sorrow Aggravating

Book:The Spectator, no. 1-314

Source: The Spectator, no. 1-314

“Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.”

Character Helping Care Joy Music Alive Sorrow Sensibility Fountain Perplexity

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.”

Kind Character Jobs Suffering Difficult Understanding Compassion Bears Sorrow Training Increase Adversity Endure Disappointment Compassion For Others Job Training

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

“Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.”

Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

“Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.”

Ifs Men Life Character Pleasure Taken Sadness Sorrow Sad Live Life Melancholy Impervious Sadness And Sorrow

Book:Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.”

Life Long Made Real Character Process Struggle Failing Week Sorrow Quiet Decided Supreme Temptation Conquer Wrestling Steady Trembling

Author:Phillips Brooks

“We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a smile, of the secret cares, struggles, and worries that shorten life and leave their mark in hair prematurely whitened, and a character changed and almost recreated in a few days. Let us not dare to add to the burden of another the pain of our judgment.”

Source: The kingship of self-control [from Self-control, its kingship and majesty] by W.G. Jordon [sic].

“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”

Inspirational Character Pain Causes Virtue Honesty Integrity Sorrow Adversity Sole

Author:Sophocles

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