Distress Quotes - Page 7

• We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Healing, Self Confidence

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• Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Pain, Adversity, Doors

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• Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Punishment

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.

  Dalai Lama

  Being Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Emotional

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• Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Coffee, Night, Blood

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• When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Clever, War

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Heart, Sorrow

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• Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

  H. G. Wells

  Hate, Gun, Order

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• Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Faith, Letting Go, Can Do

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms”, p.16, Baker Books

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• The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.

  Ambrose

  Sea, Church, Foundation

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• Every one in this world has as much as they can do in caring for themselves, and few have leisure really to think of their neighbours distresses, however they may delight their tongues with talking of them.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Caring, Thinking, Talking

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1822). “Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson: During the Last Twenty Years of His Life”, p.142

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• To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Doors, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress.

  Samuel D. Warren

  Pain, Solitude, Essentials

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• It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The author of the remark probably meant to assert that a man or a system may have become famous on the continent, while we are almost ignorant of the name of the man and the claims of his system. Perhaps, however, a wider range might be given to the assertion. An exploded theory or a disadvantageous practice, like a rebel or a patriot in distress, seeks refuge on our shores to spend its last days in comfort if not in splendour.

  Isaac Todhunter

  Science, Men, Practice

  Isaac Todhunter (1873). “The Conflict of Studies and Other Essays on Subjects Connected with Education”, p.136, London : Macmillan

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• [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

  Immanuel Kant

  Grief, Fate, Psychology

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• If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us.

  Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

  Spiritual, Feet, Deceit

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• So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.

  Zhuangzi

  Happiness, Letting Go, Loss

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• I’m not a damsel and there is no distress

  Carrie Jones

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.62, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

  William Wilberforce

  Religious, Book, Want

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• To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that may bring us sorrow, distress, or unhappiness, and bear them patiently for as long as God wishes.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Mean, Long, Sorrow

  "The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses".

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• Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

  Plutarch

  Soul, Looks, Noble

  "Plutarch's Lives in Eight Volumes".

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• The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Citizens, Banking

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• Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Moral, Instinct, Duty

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.429, Penguin

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• It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that have just struck the United States of America. In these horrifying circumstances, the entire people of France, and I want to emphasize this, stand by the people of America. They express their friendship and solidarity in this tragedy. Naturally, I want to assure President Bush of my total support. France, as you know, has always condemned and unreservedly condemns terrorism, and considers that terrorism must be combated by all possible means.

  Jacques Chirac

  Mean, America, People

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