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“The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.”

“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”

Humans Religion Born My Own Views Race Atheism Source Disease Regard Misery Atheist Positive Atheism Human Race

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.”

Kind Able Mother Felt Doubt Wife Youth Source Bears Sorrow Tests Misery Hearing Faithful No Doubt Unhappiness Deceiving Polygamy Faithful Wife

Author:Orson F. Whitney

“I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.”

Believe Humans Children Past I Believe Source Majors Misery Wounded Psychiatry Neglected Inner Child

Book:Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child

Source: Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child

“the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.”

Humans May Said Use Lying Economic Source Economics Misery Possession Goods Principal Unwise

Author:Georgia Harkness

“Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don't even really care about you. Don't make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity.”

“You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.”

Want Feels Heart Whole Hate Order Passion Christ Alive Impossible Source Hatred Misery Betrayal Whole Life Spokes Justified Adultery Love Someone Abnormal Friend Betrayal

Book:The Prague Cemetery

Source: The Prague Cemetery

“God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.”

May Soul Helping Desire Religious Poverty Support Source Resources Encouragement Misery Chosen Fearful Sole Nothingness

Book:Abandonment to Divine Providence

Source: Abandonment to Divine Providence

“That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.”

Source: The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

“Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.”

World Source Misery

Book:The Abolition of Work and Other Essays

Source: The Abolition of Work and Other Essays

“Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.”

Men Wealth Source Honor Add Misery Obsession Chiefs

Author:Maimonides

“"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.”

Humans Spirituality Source Majors Understood Misery Rebellion Pursued Rebellion Against God

Book:The Divine Conspiracy: Jesus' Master Class for Life : Participant's Guide

Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Jesus' Master Class for Life : Participant's Guide

“The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.”

World War Lying White Source Benefits Concerned Labor Skins Innovation Management Misery Workers Protection War Of The Worlds Tension Historian Pioneers World War One White Skin

Author:David Roediger

“Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.”

Social Lines Brain Taken Source Misery Within You Identification

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.”