448 quotes found
“The Saviour is a life-giving light.”
“The Scriptures are words of great encouragement.”
“Rest, refreshed and revived your soul.”
“Accept things that will make you happy. This is the joy of sacred existence.”
“You cant truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.”
“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”
“No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly swe...”
“Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.”
“If a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is.”
“Erica's despair has nothing to do with lack of motherly love. She loved Maja fiercely and sincerely. At the same time she felt as if she'd been invaded by an alien parasite that sucked all joy out ...”
“For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.”
“Much protest is nave; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protesters who hold out longer have perhaps understood that success is not...”
“Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to f...”
“Seek the truth.”
“Why?' says the boy.'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.''Why is staying alive more important than anything?'He is about to answer, about to produce the correct, patient...”
“The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life”
“Have You Prayed When the windturns and asks, in my fathers voice,Have you prayed?I know three things. One:Im never finished answering to the dead.Two: A man is four winds and three fires.And the fo...”
“We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".”
“Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way...”
“When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, Pray. Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.”
