Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster. . . The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to the prophets and stored at least one year's supply of survival food.
The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see. '
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.
The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Equanimity is calamity's medicine.
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist the Internet is wonderful are those who need it to give their life meaning.
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress
To me, self-description is a calamity.
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.