Pastoral Resources

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.