Distress Quotes - Page 5

• If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

  Hafez

  Patience, Years, Desire

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• Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will seem to hang upon its burning lips, yea the face, eyes, and ears will seem to be chimneys and vents for the flame, and the smoke of the burning , which God, by His breath, hath kindled therein, and upon, them, which will be held one in another, to the great torment and distress of each other.

  John Bunyan

  Eye, Fire, Wrath

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• Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Winning, Men, Fire

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• Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

  Peter O'Toole

  Jobs, Tombstone, Blood

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• Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Judging, Sensual, Hardship

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• In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Important, Helping

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.142, Paulist Press

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• To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Weather, Wish

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.89, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.

  Michael Porter

  Crush, Jobs, Cities

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• As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
  to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
  and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
  pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Emotional, Perspective, Drug

  Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press

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• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

  William Styron

  Insomnia, Patterns, Relief

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• I’m not a damsel and there is no distress

  Carrie Jones

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.62, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that may bring us sorrow, distress, or unhappiness, and bear them patiently for as long as God wishes.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Mean, Long, Sorrow

  "The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses".

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• Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to how these unnecessary deaths can be avoided. In the meantime.. to prevent your offspring from becoming a SIDS statistic just make sure that its daily intake of ascorbate from conception on is sufficient. Under this regime the neonate is so robust and healthy that there has never been a case of SIDS among these ascorbate corrected infants, not even a case of respiratory distress during birth.

  Irwin Stone

  Medicine, Long, Healthy

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• Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

  William Wilberforce

  Religious, Book, Want

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• People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

  Giambattista Vico

  People, Mind, Firsts

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• The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Confusion, Simplicity

  "BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health".

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• When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Twilight, Heart

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

  CJ Roberts

  Romance, Handsome, Damsel In Distress

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• It distresses me when I take my seven-year-old nephew out. I cook healthy food, and he wants to go to McDonald's. He doesn't even like the food; he just wants the toys, the Happy Meals. I can't stand to see people walking down the street eating fast food.

  Julia Sawalha

  Mcdonalds, Years, People

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• The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Citizens, Banking

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• When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Guy, Looks, World

  "Sigourney Weaver: No Damsel In Distress". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 13, 2012.

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• We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Memories, Two, Mind

  Jan Chozen Bays (2011). “How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near to Him so that He can draw near to us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Mistake, Sorrow

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• The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us.

  Chris Prentiss

  Mistake, Waiting, Perception

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

  Billy Graham

  Looks, Circumstances, Gods Will

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Feb 11, 2014

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