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“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.”

“The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.”

Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons

“O brief, bright smile of summer! O days divine and dear The voices of winter's sorrow Already we can hear. And we know that the frosts will find us, And the smiling skies grow rude, While we look in the face of Beauty, And worship her every mood.”

Knows Looks Faces Grows Voice Sky Divine Sorrow Summer Worship Winter Dear Mood Rude Frost Bright Smiles

Author:Celia Thaxter

“On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.”

Mind Heart Causes Enjoy Moral Dog Divine Friends Sorrow Smell Protection Planes Scent Heart And Mind True Friend

Author:Honore de Balzac

“From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.”

Humans Divine Sorrow All Things Streams Exile

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow. Of course there are hours of concern and anxiety. We all worry. But the Lord has told us to lift our hearts and rejoice. I see so many people...who seem never to see the sunshine, but who constantly walk with storms under cloudy skies. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”

“For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift of Bacchus, god of wine. When I take wine, my cares go to rest.”

Soul Care Sleep Divine Sorrow Drink Wine Bowls Juice Bacchus

Author:Anacreon

“I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”

People Way Made Justice Cities Divine Sorrow Elements Eternal Ultimate Sacred Moved Raised Intellect Abandon Architect Woe Omnipotence Forsaken

Book:The inferno

Source: The inferno

“[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer and liturgy, of the sacraments, and of the way in which we have an in-built sense of the divine that we suppress to our great sorrow - these are all immense contributions to Christian thought. The same could be said of his commentaries, which are still regularly consulted by biblical critics today.”

Way Persons Said Stills Today Christian Spirit Christ Prayer Divine Sorrow Holy Built Critics Believer Holy Spirit Contribution Treatment Immense Biblical Sacraments Commentary Liturgy

Author:Oliver D. Crisp

“Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch.”

Giving Care Humanity Realizing Love Is Mankind Crime Produce Divine Sorrow Miracle Cures Sparks Sooner Or Later Greatest Gifts Gift From God Acts Of Love

Book:The Christ Commission: Will One Man Discover Proof That Every Christian in the World Is Wrong?

Source: The Christ Commission: Will One Man Discover Proof That Every Christian in the World Is Wrong?

“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.”

Giving Stills War Self Lying Fall Effort Divine Sweet Wind Sorrow Bed Profound Resistance Branches Autumn Warmth Comforting Odor Moaning Autumn Wind

Book:Pleasures and days: and other writings

Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings

“The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.”

Love Care Romance Lying Humanity Peace Crime Produce Divine Sorrow Cures Vitality One Word Words Love Friend Valentine

Author:Lydia M. Child

“All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.”

Soul Pain Suffering Turns Tears Divine Sorrow Comfort Dresses Shining Thee Grieving Woe Repent Gems

Book:The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto

Source: The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto

“The greatest attribute of God is Love. The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant fruit that grows and ripens is Life giving Love; it is the great healing force in the world. Love never fails to meet every demand of the human heart. The Divine principal of Love may be used to eliminate every sorrow, infirmity, in-harmony, ignorance and all mistakes of mankind. Love is God; eternal, limitless, changeless, infinite. It is the pulse of the world, the heartbeat of the Universe.”