Tears Quotes - Page 8

• Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

  William Wordsworth

  Compassion, Ends, Sigh

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.102

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• Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Eye, Mirrors, Departed

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.332

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• I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

  Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

  Mother, Memories, School

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• Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Zero, Tennis

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• For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Running, Suffering, Colour

  'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1850) no. 8

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• I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.

  Charlotte Alington Barnard

  Song, Art, Failure

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• I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Passion, Men

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• I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mother, Systematic, Taught

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My proposal is not that we understand what the word ‘god’ means and manage somehow to fit Jesus into that. Instead, I suggest that we think historically about a young Jew, possessed of a desperately risky, indeed apparently crazy, vocation, riding into Jerusalem in tears, denouncing the Temple, and dying on a Roman cross-and that we take our courage in both hands and allow our meaning for the word ‘god’ to be recentered around that point.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Crazy, Mean

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• We are Heavenly Father’s children. He wants to be a part of our lives, to bless us, and to help us. He will heal our wounds, dry our tears, and help us along our path to return to His presence. As we look to Him, He will lead us.

  Carl B. Cook

  Children, Father, Looks

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• This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Roles, Stories

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• Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.

  Richard J. Foster

  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

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• Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.

  Frederick Buechner

  Good Night, Dream, Rain

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• A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Broken, Lord

  'The Altar', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Feet, Earth

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• The Book, this Holy Book, on every line,
  Mark'd with the seal of high divinity,
  On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love
  Divine, and with the eternal heraldry
  And signature of God Almighty stamp'd
  From first to last; this ray of sacred light,
  This lamp, from off the everlasting throne,
  Mercy took down, and in the night of time
  Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow;
  And evermore beseeching men With tears
  And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.

  Robert Pollok

  Bible, Book, Believe

  Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book Ii.”

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• Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.

  Richard Crashaw

  Pain, Grieving, Shining

  Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.72

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• Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee...
  That ever felt another's woe.

  Homer

  Sympathy, Grateful, Woe

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.379, Library of Alexandria

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• And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational Love, Years, Dry

  Song: Make You Feel My Love, Album: Time Out of Mind, 1997

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• There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Healing, Health, Cry

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• Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

  Eileen Caddy

  Empty Vessels, Flow, Armor

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• The child is father of the man.

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Father, Men

  "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43

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• What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Soul, Flesh

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.59, The Floating Press

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• A tear that trembles for a little while
  Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world
  Wavers within its circle like a dream,
  Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb
  Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Circles, World

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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