Quotes About Crushing

So we thrash about in a pool of comparison and one-upmanship. Our lives become burdened by the heaviness of getting it right. Our joy becomes brittle, and our hearts slowly break. The only possible outcome of this hurry-up-and-matter hustle is the slow crushing of our souls.

Relief and something like joy flew up inside Trevor's chest. They give us these miracles, these pardons, so generously, he thought; they crush our spirits like crashing boulders only to hold open their hands to give us jewels.

Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions--crushing them down desperately!

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”