Quotes about Distress

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

“Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you are worried and upset about many things.

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.

The former, however, preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can add to the distress of my chains.

because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.

For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we have been reassured about you, because of your faith.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

The book the man is reading is the Word of God, the Bible. It has become both the focus of and the reason for his current state of perplexity and distress. The heavy burden on his back is his awakened knowledge and sense of his own sin. The man discovers the frightful condition of his heart, which provokes genuine and constant fears of damnation. These fears are an ever-present weight upon his entire person. 4.