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gratitude doors silence
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. C. S. Lewis
gratitude grateful luxury
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.] Charlie Chaplin
gratitude grateful opportunity
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me. Charles Dickens
gratitude circles fire
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude men serenity
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.
gratitude dross made
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
gratitude powerful yield
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
sorrow vision arms
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms. Charlotte Bronte
sorrow despair prodigious
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
sorrow sin repentance
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
sorrow abstinence remains
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
sorrow world way
There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way. Myrtle Reed
sorrow may employment
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. Jane Austen
sorrow may cry-the-beloved-country
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich. Alan Paton
sorrow comfort
Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort. William Shakespeare
sorrow storm comfort
Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided. John Heywood
delight guests leisure
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui. Agnes Repplier
delight ifs settings
If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do. Charles Spurgeon
delight holiness pleasure
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.
delight matter infinity
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? Charles Baudelaire
delight far knowledge nature pleasure
The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature Francis Bacon
delight flattery praise
Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.
delights double life second
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. Laurie Colwin
delightful french-writer happiness pleasure starts tainted worm
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille
delight impossibility
We have a God who delights in impossibilities. Billy Sunday