Pastoral Resources

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.