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    Donald S. Whitney
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    Genesis 50:15-21 , 1 Kings 19:1-18, Daniel 3:13-30 , Mark 4:35-41 , 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 , Psalm 46:1-3
    I have read that each of us experiences a relatively significant crisis on an average of once every six months or so.

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    Ruth Burrows
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    I was born into this world with a tortured sensitivity. For long I have puzzled over the causes of my psychological anguish.

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    Alexandre Dumas
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    Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? D...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with...

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    Katharina Schutz Zell
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    Isaiah 42:14 , Hosea 11:3-4 , Deuteronomy 32:18 , John 16:21 , Luke 13:34 , Psalm 22:9-10
    [Christ] gives the analogy of bitter labor and says: “A woman when she bears a child has anguish and sorrow” (John 16:21) and He applies all of this to His suffering, in which He so hard and bitterly ...

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    Helen Keller
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    Joshua 1:9, Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 27:13-14, Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Hebrews 12:1-2
    Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

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    Sarah Christmyer
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    Every Holy Saturday, the Church waits as it were beside the tomb, meditating on Christ's death while awaiting the announcement of his resurrection. Like John, we can take Mary into our homes and p...

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    Martin Luther
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    “Abba” is only a little word, and yet contains everything. It is not the mouth but the heart’s affection which speaks like this. Even if I am oppressed with anguish and terror on every side, and seem ...

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    Stanley Hauerwas
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    I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need ou...

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    Madeleine L'Engle
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    Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Luke 22:44, Jeremiah 20:7-9, Job 13:15, Habakkuk 1:2, Psalm 42:11
    Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God,...

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    Miguel de Unamuno
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    Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Luke 22:44, Habakkuk 1:2, Jeremiah 20:7-9, Job 3:11
    Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation...

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    George Herbert
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    Was ever grief like mine?

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    Madeleine L'Engle
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    Romans 5:8, John 1:1-10, Luke 5:31-32, Isaiah 9:2, Isaiah 12:5-6, Luke 2:10-11
    He did not wait till the world was ready, till men and nations were at peace He came when the Heavens were unsteady and prisoners cried out for release. He did not wait for the perfect time. He came w...

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    Brennan Manning
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    1 Peter 4:8, Acts 7:, Luke 15:11-32, Ephesians 4:32, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
    Jesus said you are to love one another as I have loved you, a love that will possibly lead to the bloody, anguished gift of yourself, a love that forgives seven times seven, that keeps no score of wro...

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cri...

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    Nancy Ortberg
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    When pain is this fresh and this awful, I’m not sure much light can get through. You have to wait for some of the initial jolt to subside, to let something settle enough that you can emerge from being...

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    Victor Hugo
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    Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous."

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    Julian of Norwich
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    So pain endures for a time. Its role is to purge us, to make us to know ourselves, and it drives us to the Lord to plead for mercy.

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    John Donne
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    Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

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    Albert Camus
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    Live to the point of tears.

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    John Piper
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    The world aches to be awed. That ache was made for God. The world seeks it mainly through movies.

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    Thomas Fuller
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    Despair gives courage to a coward.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion ...

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    Jim Cotter
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    Again rises from the heart of suffering the ancient cry, O God, why? O God, how long? And the cry is met with silence.

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    Mignon McLaughlin
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    When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

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    William Shakespeare
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    Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

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    Zora Neale Hurston
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    There’s no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

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    Mignon McLaughlin
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    When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    As we feel the pain of our own losses, our grieving hearts open our inner eye to a world in which losses are suffered far beyond our own little world of family, friends, and colleagues. It is the worl...
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