Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
– Blaise Pascal
Change | Grief | Healing
Joy is best sown in broken ground.
– Jack Wellman
Joy | Grief
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Worldliness | Grief | Tolerance
After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.
– A. W. Pink
Forgiveness | Grief | Joy
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
– C.S. Lewis
Suffering | Grief
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as “in all points tempted like as we are,” bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us.
– Alexander MacLaren
Affliction | Grief
The cross is a one time, visual representation of God’s grief over sin.
– Assorted Authors
Atonement | The Cross | Grief
We rejoice in spite of our grief, not in place of it.
– Woodrow Kroll
Grief | Joy
We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness – today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.
– William Law
Pride | Grief | Virtue
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
– Isaac Watts
Suffering | Grief
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
– C.S. Lewis
Suffering | Grief
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Suffering | Grief
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as “in all points tempted like as we are,” bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us.
– Alexander MacLaren
Affliction | Grief
In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear?
– Hannah More
Fear | Grief
To walk after the spirit a believer must inhibit his mind from revolving endlessly. If it turns too long around one topic, worries or grieves too much over matters, and ponders too intensively to know God’s will, it may become unbearable and hamper its normal operation. The mind needs to be kept in a steady and secure state.
– Watchman Nee
Prayer | Grief
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
– Jim Elliot
Holiness | Grief