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.
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
I hid myself within myself. . . and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears new fruit and so does not die. We are like grain. We never die because we are One with Nature. To understand this is to comprehend Immortality--the Apotheosis of the Human Race. It is with this conviction that I have lived my Life. My Life is a store of my experience, a Life of aspirations, sorrows, joys and triumphs.
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.
This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.
