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For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
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He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
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It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
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Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.
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The affectionate heart of my aunt, Catherine Porten, bewailed a sister and a friend; but my poor father was inconsolable, and the transport of grief seemed to threaten his life or his reason.
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You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength.
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A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart
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Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change
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It is good to enlarge one’s sorrows, since thus does enlargement come to our consciousness, and there, there alone do we truly feel that we live.
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Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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much of grief is blunted and relaxed when the body is permeated by calm, like the sea in fine weather
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when people see their friends' houses on fire they put it out as quickly and energetically as they can, but when their souls are on fire they themselves bring fuel
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This it must be; and there is no means of escaping from tribulation and sorrow, except to bear them patiently.
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Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.