Quotes of Tribulation - somelinesforyou

“ What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us… ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. ”

- Homer

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

- Herbert Hoover

“ Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures? ”

- Joseph Addison

“ There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie, Endured, never expended. ”

- May Sarton

“ By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go. ”

- John Powell

“ The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. ”

- Claudian

“ I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph. ”

- Cordell Hull

“ Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. ”

- George MacDonald

“ Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. ”

- Mathew Henry

“ No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. ”

- Gautama Buddha

“ We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy. ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. ”

- Sophocles

“ Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. ”

- Edward Chapin

“ Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war. ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction. ”

- St. John of the Cross

“ There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ Thou are never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which he permits for the purifications and beautifying of thy soul. ”

- Unknown

“ In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation. ”

- Michael Monahan

“ Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. ”

- Unknown

“ Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. ”

- William A. Ward

“ Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. ”

- Euripides
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