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    George Bernard Shaw
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    Psalm 37:4, Proverbs 13:13, Ecclesiastes 1:14, James 4:3, Matthew 6:33, Jeremiah 17:9
    There are two tragedies in lie. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

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    Karl Marx
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    All great historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice ... the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

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    Wallace Stevens
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    The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination. A capital destroyed him in his tenement… It had nothing of the Julian thunder-cloud: The assassin flash and rumble . . . He was denied. Phantoms, ...

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    D. L. Mayfield
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    The deep and dark tragedy of affluence is how it takes away curiosity, how it accepts the world as it is, how it conforms to the talking points of empire and Pharaohs.

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    A. W. Tozer
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    A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief.

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    John Chryssavgis
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    Unfortunately, the reality is that we tolerate being less than we are called to be. Pride is not the ultimate sin; forgetfulness of our origin and destiny is, in fact, the ultimate tragedy.

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    Kent Hughes
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    Today friendship has fallen on hard times. Few men have good friends, much less deep friendships. Individualism, autonomy, privatization, and isolation are culturally cachet, but deep, devoted, vulner...

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    Alexander Schmemann
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    1 Peter 1:3, Luke 24:1-12, Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28:1-10, John 11:25-26, John 20:1-18, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55
    Thus on Easter we celebrate Christ’s Resurrection as something that happened and still happens to us. For each one of us received the gift of that new life and the power to accept it and to live by it...

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    Russell Moore
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    We receive celebrities simply because they are ‘conservative,’ without asking what they are conserving. If you are angry with the same people we are, you must be one of us. But it would be a tragedy t...

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    Shane Claiborne
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    I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor… I truly believe that when the rich meet the...

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    Timothy Keller
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    A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will ...

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    Anthony Bloom
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    Learn to master time, and you will be able—whatever you do, whatever the stress, in the storm, in tragedy, or simply in the confusion in which we continuously live—to be still, immobile in the present...

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    Richard Dawkins
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    We humans have purpose on the brain…show us almost any object or process, and it is hard for us to resist the “Why question…It is an almost universal delusion…the old temptation comes back with a veng...

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    Plato
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    We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark: the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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    Jerome Bruner
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    Stories are about the vicissitudes of human intention. Trouble is what drives the drama.

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    D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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    The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his enviro...

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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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    Dallas Willard
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    Individual disasters, too, very largely follow upon human choices, our own or those of others. And whether or not they do in a particular case, the situations in which we find ourselves are never as i...

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    Marcel Proust
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    Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

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    Gillian Marchenko
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    One of the biggest tragedies of depression is myopia. You cannot see beyond your own nose.

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    George Carlin
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    People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is s...

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    Albert Camus
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    Live to the point of tears.

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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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    Peter Berger
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    [Every culture has provided an] explanation of human events that bestows meaning upon the experiences of suffering and evil.

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    Isaac Watts
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    For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

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    Joan Didion
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    Grief has no distance…Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

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    Boris Cyrulnik
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    All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story.

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    David McCullough
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    Micah 6:8, Revelation 6:4, Romans 3:10-12, Matthew 23:27, Isaiah 5:20
    History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should rea...

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    Victor Hugo
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    “This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the sam...

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    Hannah More
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    In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear?
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