Quotes about Misery
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.
- Max Lucado
Charlie says that "God gives us a choice when we face difficult circumstances." We can choose misery or "we can choose to face our trials with God's help, knowing that we'll come out the other side as stronger people for the experience."
- Jim Daly
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
- Anonymous
Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.
- Euripides
His pride was trampled, and his spirit was humbled, yet he knew the way out: praising God. That's our way out, too. Out of sin, out of misery, out of fear. When we start praising God for all the great things he has done, there's little time left for whining or worrying.
- Liz Curtis Higgs
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.
- Annette Funicello
Miserable comforters are ye all.
- Anonymous
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Anonymous
Love leads to misery. Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. Remember that woman's mistake, the pain.
- Frank Herbert
This iron world (the same he weeping says)Brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state:For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spens.Hubberd's Tale.
- Samuel Johnson