Quotes related to Matthew 5:4
Sorrow is not a stranger to any of us, though only a few have learned that is is not our enemy either.
— John Eldredge
What kind of second-rate grief is it that permits them to walk?
— John Updike
Simply put, meditation is the path to clarity, compassion, and a path of wisdom leading to the eradication of suffering.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
— Audre Lorde
[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
— Teresa of Avila
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Wounded healers are GOD's Greatest weapons.
— Mario Murillo
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
— Charles Dickens
An angel asked me why are you sad?, thinking of you I answered because I miss her, then I heard the angel giggle...I looked up and began to smile and said oh, it's you!
— Anonymous
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
— George Bernard Shaw
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
— George Bernard Shaw
Losing them leaves this gaping hole in your life and nothing can fill it." He shook his head. "it's a loss you live with forever. I forget how much it hurts, sometimes for days at a time. And then it'll hit me again.
— Mary Connealy