Best sorrow & religious Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.”

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Book:Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice

Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice

“The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.”

Firsts Humans Joy Mother Religious Race Sorrow Universal Human Race Transformed Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Nativity

Author:John of Damascus

“Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified”

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Author:Margaret Mary Alacoque

“He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this agony from us. He needs it for souls and for our soul... Alas, it does pain Him to give us sorrows to drink, but He knows this is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself and to become God's ourselves.”

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Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.”

Self Pain Faith Religious Tears Sorrow Pity Shed Affliction Self Pity Penitence

Author:John Calvin

“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

“Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.”

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Author:Silouan the Athonite

“Amma Theodora said: A certain monk, afflicted by many sorrows, said to himself, "Leave this place." With these words he began to put his sandals on his feet, and suddenly he saw the devil in the form of a man sitting in the corner of his cell. The devil was also putting on his sandals. He said to the monk, "Are you leaving here because of me? Well then, wherever you go, I will be there before you."”

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Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov

“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.”

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Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Abba Dorotheos said: No matter what kind of sorrow comes to you, don't blame anyone but yourself, and say, "This has happened because of my sins."”

Inspirational Kind Said Matter Christian Religious Sin Happened Sorrow No Matter What Blame Orthodox Abba

Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov

“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

“How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“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.”

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Author:Marcus Eremita

“Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.”

Source: The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelists

“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.”

“The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.”

Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

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