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“If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.”

Ifs Humans Humanity Sorrow Misery Ruins Human Life Affected Palaces Cottages

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.”

People Ifs Fire Sorrow Gods Will Nourishment

Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“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

“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.”

Ifs Men Littles Soul Joy Force He Man Arms Sorrow Hundred Conscience Labor Workers Shed Tranquility Thorough Sulky

Author:William Wilberforce

“If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.”

Ifs Grief Sorrow

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.”

Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

“It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Firsts May Real Death Evil Natural Loss Acting Ought Sorrow Illusion Gains Overcoming Errors Separation Evident Weeping Happier Life

Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater

“If we love a person, we love him, and whatever he may do will not affect our love. It may cause us pain if he does evil, because we love him; it may cause us sorrow and suffering; but it cannot affect our love.”

Ifs May Persons Doe Pain Suffering Evil Causes Sorrow Our Love

Book:The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals

Source: The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals

“Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come.”

Ifs World Trying Home Moving Dies Realizing Lord This World Sorrow Eternal Unity Eternal Love

Book:The Science of the Sacraments

Source: The Science of the Sacraments

“Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your, knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way.”

Ifs Way Shows Hands Turns Enemy Advice Sorrow Knees Arrows

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!”

Ifs Sorrow Accepted

Author:Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

“I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.”

Ifs Believe Kind Long Enough Joy I Believe Waiting Sorrow Honorable

Author:Corra May Harris

“Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'”

“If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool's notion of history.”

Ifs Knows Men Feelings Secret Events Judging Fool Sorrow Tables Notion Know Me Secret Thoughts

Book:The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.”

Ifs Way Looks Has Beens Pain Suffering Compassion Our Lives Sorrow Essentials Findings Tasks Mercy Caught Honestly Exile Wrongdoing

Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow.”

Ifs Believe Persons Happens Asks My Own Prayer Streets Praying Sorrow Don't Believe Defined Ease Schemes Entity Unfortunate Mantras

Author:George Carlin

“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

“If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.”

Ifs Doe Suffering Faith Religious Our Lives Sorrow Clouds

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.”

Ifs World Might Sadness Sorrow Sad Wings Here And There

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Humans Christian Desire Religious Virtue Impossible Doors Produce Humility Pride Sorrow Draws Orthodox Righteousness Affliction

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not know enmity or hatred, and we would not suffer from the sorrows of ourselves or others.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Christian Suffering Religious Poverty Sorrow Hatred Orthodox Fear Of Death Enmity

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!”

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.”

People Ifs World Faces Evil Belief Realizing Poor Environment Like You Sorrow Assuming Meaningful Granted Abundance Good People Beneficial Examining Exuberance Meaningful Work Poor Health

Author:Seth

“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.”

Ifs Men May Doe Stories Song Fall Born Team Hero Sorrow Losing Glory Strive Falling In Love Leaving Defeat Sweetest Saddest Triumphant

Book:The Boys of Summer

Source: The Boys of Summer

“The Saints in Heaven through the Holy Spirit behold the glory of God and the beauty of the Lord's Countenance. But in this same Holy Spirit they see our lives too, and our deeds. They know our sorrows and hear our burning prayers. When they were living on earth they learned of the love of God from the Holy Spirit; and he who knows love on earth takes it with him into eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven, where love grows and becomes perfect. And if love makes one unable to forget a brother here, how much more must the Saints remember and pray for us!”

“Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasionally destroy the old. That's something you're really not allowed to say because things are often destroyed according to particular power relations so it means taking a stand in those cases, which I am not really interested in doing either. I think I am simply interested in looking.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mean I Can Courses Simple Cases Particular Sorrow Destruction Relation Reactions Destroyed New Things

Author:Aleksandra Mir

“If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.”

Ifs World Ideas Reality Christian This World Sorrow Mere Kingdoms Materialistic Kingdom Come

Author:Ben Salmon

“This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.”

Ifs World Wells Long Ideas Action This World Depends Sorrow Foundation Well Being Excellent Firm Mutual Long Ago Proven Departure Fables Firm Foundation

Book:Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“I no longer become angry. I not only do not say angry words, I do not even think angry thoughts! If someone does an unkind thing to me I feel only compassion instead of resentment. Even upon those who cause suffering I look with deep compassion, knowing the harvest of sorrow that lies in store for them. If there were those who hated me, I would love them in return, knowing that hatred can only be overcome by love, and knowing that there is good in all human beings which can be reached by a loving approach.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“It is hard to be with another's pain if we cannot be with our own. Since I was a child I have always felt a deep sense of responsibility to ease others' pain. But I have discovered that often, beneath this genuine and admirable desire, lies an inability to be with my own sorrow. Several years ago, watching a close friend suffer when a brain aneurysm took away her life as she knew it, I wrote in my journal, "I won't ask much. But if you would just let me save your life, perhaps it will not hurt so much to know I cannot save my own.”

“Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.”

“If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.”

Ifs Wells Might Today Lord Alive Sorrow Importance Indifference Surround Controversy Live For Today Supper Lord's Supper

Book:The Doctrines That Divide: A Fresh Look at the Historic Doctrines That Separate Christians

Source: The Doctrines That Divide: A Fresh Look at the Historic Doctrines That Separate Christians

“My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.”

People Ifs Thinking Heart Persons I Can Moments Suffering Causes Goal Break Awareness Sorrow Illusion Telling The Truth Sentimentality Break Your Heart

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.”

Ifs Thinking Should Writing Firsts Persons Earth Desire Lost Saws Sorrow Paper Passing Passings First Person Loved And Lost

Book:Selected letters, 1940-1956

Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956

“Be not afraid of those trials which God may see fit to send upon thee. It is with the wind and the storm of tribulation that God, in the garner of the soul, separates the true wheat from the chaff. Always remember, therefore, that God comes to thee in thy sorrows as really as in thy joys. He lays low and He builds up. Thou wilt find thyself far from perfection if thou dost not find God in everything.”

Ifs May Soul Remember Joy Wind Fit Sorrow Lows Perfection Lays Storm Trials Thee Not Afraid Thyself Wheat Tribulation

Author:Miguel de Molinos

“There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.”

Ifs Knows Soul Answers Sorrow Your Soul

Author:Mariah Carey

“I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.”

Ifs Knows Way Might Desire Grief Lord Saws Land Arms Sorrow Swim Flood Glances Our Lord Jerusalem Gladness Heaviness

Author:Samuel Rutherford

“If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.”

Ifs Heart Real Helping Problem Joy Teacher Share Youth Sorrow Solve Aspiration Guardian Joys And Sorrows

Book:My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

“My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.”

“There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.”

People Ifs Firsts Pain Love Is Quality Cases Genius Needed Sorrow Sufficient First Love Stimulus

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.”

Ifs Joy Walks Secret Knowing Mystery Sorrow Absolutes Extremes Deny Ghost Guise Deep Sorrow

Book:The Jaguar Hunter

Source: The Jaguar Hunter

“Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it.”

Ifs Sorrow Caring

Author:Frank A. Clark

“Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.”

Ifs Heart Broken Sorrow Filled Treasure Buried

Author:Rumi

“Recently, one friend asked me, "How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural." I told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can not let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty.”

Ifs Humans Hands Able Turns Force Natural Human Beings Situation Millions Television Sorrow Filled Seeds Just One Can Not Sovereignty One Friend

Author:Nhat Hanh

“But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”

Ifs World Remember Nature Technology Generations Achieve Sorrow Gratitude Miracle Environmental Patriotic Glimpse Future Generation

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But if you get rid of that negativity, which goes away naturally when you transcend every day, these ideas are more freely flowing, and you get happy in the doing. You get fresh and inspiring ideas, and a bigger picture starts to emerge of the world and life. It's very good for the artist, businessman, fisherman, and any kind of person really.”

Ifs World Kind Persons Ideas Artist Sorrow Anxiety Negative Flow Bigger Stress Very Good Tension Negativity Businessman Tubes Doing You Fisherman Bigger Picture World And Life

Author:David Lynch

“It is harmful to remember previous sins in detail. For if they bring you sorrow, they will estrange you from hope, but if they are remembered without sorrow, they will introduce the previous defilement. If you want to bring to God an uncondemned confession, then don't remember your sins in detail, but manfully endure the suffering that is coming because of them.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Christian Remember Suffering Religious Sin Sorrow Endure Details Remembered Orthodox Introducing Confession Defilement

Author:Marcus Eremita

“Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we do it. He thinks all is well if I act beneficently, realizing that it is my duty but also having sympathetic feelings for the person I help. But I ought to strive to be the sort of person who would still help even if these feelings were absent. And it is such a case that he presents when the sympathetic friend of humanity finds his sympathetic feelings overclouded by his own sorrows, and still acts beneficently from duty.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Persons Doe Stills Helping Feelings Action Humanity Choices Realizing Cases Duty Ought Sorrow Strive Motive Absent Sympathetic

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."”

Ifs Way Memories Party Sorrow Drinking Kill Me Drowning George Jones

Author:Kenny Chesney

“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.”

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