Quotes About Tears

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Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

Here's the question: Will we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts too? It'll mean more tears, more listening. It may even be the reason why so many of us struggle with our own personal burdens and heartaches - God is allowing us to feel the pain, to be weak and broken so that our prayers have power.

A reluctance to participate in such a fundamental realm of the human experience results in much unnecessary loss. For just as without night there is no day, without work there is no play, without hunger there is no satiation, without fear there is no courage, without tears there is no joy, and without anger, there is no real love.

Thus, grieving is especially profound when we can fluidly shift between feeling and emoting. Sometimes we will only need to fully feel and accept the sensations of our pain. Other times we will want to verbally ventilate about our pain with someone who gives us full permission to color our words with angering and tears.

3. EMOTIONAL NURTURANCE: Meeting the child consistently with caring, regard and interest. Welcoming and valuing the child's full emotional expression. Modeling non-abusive expression of emotions. Teaching safe ways to release anger that do not hurt the child or others. Generous amounts of love, warmth, tenderness, and compassion. Honoring tears as a way of releasing hurt. Being a safe refuge. Humor.

Progress doubles our tenure in a vale of tears.

Ich schließe meine Augen. Was da drinnen los ist. Was da zappelt, was da wie ein blinder Fisch durch den Schmerz schwimmt, für immer und ewig. Was da lebt, was bleibt. Was sich erneuert, die Liebe und den Schmerz lebendig hält. Die Liebe ist das Flussbett, das sich mit Schmerz füllt. Es füllt sich jeden Tag aufs Neue mit Tränen.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.

Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaohís household soon heard of it.

Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.

Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.

Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.

In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.

Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.

“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ëI have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.

My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.