I hid myself within myself. . . and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.
While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.
I'm more of a freedom fighter than I am a Christian. I serve Jesus Christ. How I believe is that God's promises are not for here on Earth. They're for when we leave this Earth and we go to Heaven - that's when there's no more tears, no more sorrows.
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.
Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
. . . 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.
What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
If thou tellest the sorrows of thy heart, let it be to him in whose countenance thou mayst be assured of prompt consolation.
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.