Quotes about Turmoil

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

calamity of their own making.

If we do not sacrifice the natural to the spiritual, the natural life will resist and defy the life of the Son of God in us and will produce continual turmoil. This is always the result of an undisciplined spiritual nature. We go wrong because we stubbornly refuse to discipline ourselves physically, morally, or mentally.

To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.

I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”

“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.

And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.

You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,