When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In...

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if they...

The moment you realize that life will hurt more than your death. While existing, we’re forced to become acquainted with sadness. There’s no antibiotic for the ridding of distress, and no alleviation of these intervals...

Can you hold my hand the entire night?” My voice comes out as a quiet whisper.There’s a pause. I’m almost afraid to meet his eyes. Heartbeat picking up faster, his fingers interweave with mine and...

Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.

I was free, free from all the distress and angst i felt before. Her red string of fate was tied to someone else and my thread was broken.

There’s a girl in this dress,there’s always a girl in distress.

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.

Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

You would be surprise with how many distressed hearts that you could touch by living a life of positive purpose.

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy...

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied...

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...

The words ‘good’ and ‘love’ have become so trivialized in our culture–not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with–that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.

Looking backwardsHas never been my endeavorLost passions… bruised emotionsNever distressed me.

he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb...

I cannot, I cannot,’ cried Marianne; ‘leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow...

When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture,...

If finding a woman in your bed is so distressing, magus, you should rethink the direction your life’s taken.

depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate...

The size of your sighs tell how deeply you’re in love. How I feel is very much like a stressed and distressed midget trying to breathe.

Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He...

The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.

Shite and onions!

Montesquieu wrote: “I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve.” If one substituted the word music for reading, the exact same dictum applied to me.

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests,...

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

when distress comes your ways, pause and ponder

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

I don’t damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. In my distress, I groan aloud and am reduced...

I want to thank you so much for what you said two weeks ago. You see, I was walking back from the grave site where I just buried my son, and while I was walking...