Ordeals Quotes - Page 6

• Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Wedding, Sacrifice

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor

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• Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?

  Randy Alcorn

  Years, Agony, Giving

  Randy Alcorn (2017). “Seeing the Unseen, Expanded Edition: A 90-Day Devotional to Set Your Mind on Eternity”, p.83, Multnomah

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• Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

  John Fante

  Sick, Soul, Faces

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.520, Canongate Books

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• Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

  Amartya Sen

  Ignorance, Half, Way

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• All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

  Brigham Young

  Intelligent, Exaltation, Crowns

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150

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• The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

  Muriel Barbery

  Real, Love You, Leaving

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• People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world.

  Ted Simon

  Journey, Goal, People

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