“Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.” JoyWhiteDoorsSorrowWide Author:George MacDonald
“The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.” ArtLawArtistSufferingTurnsDoorsSorrowCapacityDepthDenyGreat ArtGreat ArtistReception Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.” EyePainEvilPleasureDoorsEasierSorrowHeavyPrintFootstepsPain And SorrowPleasure And Happiness Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.” IfsInspirationalGivingHumansChristianDesireReligiousVirtueImpossibleDoorsProduceHumilityPrideSorrowDrawsOrthodoxRighteousnessAffliction Author:Isaac of Nineveh
“Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.” NamesDoorsSorrowTeethRetreatChamberRavens Author:Dean Koontz
“Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.” PeopleIfsHumansLongSelfMightPainSufferingOur LivesDoorsSorrowComfortAdversitySaintEaseMasteryDistressBeing HumanAnguishSelf MasteryPhysical PainBenefactorsLong Suffering Author:Spencer W. Kimball
“Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.” MadeUseChristianPleasureKnowingDoorsSorrowDrinkBlessingChristian LifeGuestsPassengersLingeringChastisement Book:Works: Devotional works Source: Works: Devotional works
“I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.” HappensMotivationalSufferingHouseDoorsKeysSorrowBiggerMisfortunes Author:Charles Fletcher Lummis
“There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.” NeedsHelpingFormEvilDoorsObjectsPositiveArmsListeningSorrowGoodnessGloryWeakPraiseAskingBlindCharityLegsHarmDeafDeitiesGlory Of GodHurryingAsking For HelpLeading The Blind Author:Muhammad