#troubles

It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#keep-a-quiet-heart #pain #troubles #life

Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else. ↗

— Pseudonymous Bosch

#emotions #funny #humor #manga #provoke

But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going To have troubles with me! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#fight-back #troubles #encouragement

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? ↗

— Paul Begala

#ago #america #bill #bill clinton #clinton

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#feel #formerly #had #i #laugh

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.' ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#anybody #bathroom #bring #coffee #down

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#choose #had #happens #reality #troubles

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#always #america #democratic #despot #embrace

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#christ #comes #energy #evil #expense

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#coalition #every #knows #man #married