“It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results”
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“It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results”
“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic, if it is pulled out I shall die”
“There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow”
“Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated”
“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain”
“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat”
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today”
“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth”
“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength”
“If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all”