Sorrow Quotes - Page 22

True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.

Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.