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Quotes About Sorrow

The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.
~ Rumi
My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.
~ Sun Myung Moon
Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.
~ Mother Teresa
Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.
~ Joan Baez
It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.
~ Todd Burpo
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.
~ Martin Luther
Unhappiness was my god.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from god.
~ Celine Dion
For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.
~ Dwight L. Moody
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.
~ Alexander MacLaren
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.
~ Ben Salmon
God, deliver me from sullen saints.
~ Teresa of Avila
We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.
~ Thomas S. Monson
May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Oh God." said Magnus, "they're dead. They're all dead!
~ Cassandra Clare
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
~ Dante Alighieri
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
~ William Mountford
God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.
~ Nick Frost
God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux