Quotes about Sorrows
But as we come to God with our hurts—honestly, not superficially—something life changing can begin slowly to happen. We discover how God is the One who invites us to healing. We realize that any dance of celebration must weave both the sorrows and the blessings into a joyful step.
- Henri Nouwen
If there is an angel who records the sorrows of men as well as their sins, he knows how many and deep are the sorrows that spring from false ideas for which no man is culpable.
- George Eliot
And Casaubon had done a wrong to Dorothea in marrying her. A man was bound to know himself better than that, and if he chose to grow grey crunching bones in a cavern, he had no business to be luring a girl into his companionship. 'It is the most horrible of virgin sacrifices,' said Will; and he painted to himself what were Dorothea's inward sorrows as if he had been writing a choric wail.
- George Eliot
A thousand sorrows prepares a man to preach.
- John Piper
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
- Joseph Wirthlin
the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
- LM Montgomery
I see happiness for all of you .... Happiness for you all ... though, mind you, I reckon, you'll have your troubles and worries and sorrows too. They're bound to come ... and no house whether it's a palace or a little house of dreams can bar' em out. But they won't get the better of you if you face them together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
- LM Montgomery
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them
- LM Montgomery
If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
- John Henry Jowett