Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
I lost a child, she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.
- Barbara Kingsolver
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
- Barbara Kingsolver
my heart felt like a soft, damaged place in my chest, like a bruise on a peach.
- Barbara Kingsolver
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
- Frederick Buechner
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
- Phillips Brooks
Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
- Teresa of Avila
Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.
- Mother Teresa
There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.
- Ashton Kutcher
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
The ill are damped with pain and anguish at the sight of all that is laudable, lovely, or happy.
- Joseph Addison