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“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”

- Cassandra Clare,

Tag: betrayal, lady-midnight, lies, pain, the-dark-artifices, truth,

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“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”

- Pema Chödrön,

Tag: courage, mindfulness, pain, self-assessment, self-awareness, truth,

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“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”

- Criss Jami

Tag: aggravation, concealment, confusion, contemplation, dishonesty, hardcore, honesty, lie, lying, never, pain, provoke, secrecy, secrets, thinkers, thought, torture, truth,

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“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as a spirit, exists beyond death; and therefore only he could do it righteously. For the physical being kills a man and hatefully sends him away, whereas God, the spiritual being, kills a man and lovingly draws him nigh.”

- Criss Jami,

Tag: adversity, agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, belief, burial, death, doubt, eternal-life, faith, funeral, god, grave, hate, heaven, heaven-and-hell, hell, holiness, holy-ghost, holy-spirit, humanity, immortality, immortality-of-the-soul, just, justice, justification, justification-by-faith, kill, life, life-after-death, life-and-death, logic, love, materalism-vs-spiritualism, materialism, mortality, mourning, murder, pain, physicality, rational, reason, reasonable-faith, religion, righteousness, skepticism, soul, spirit, spiritual, spirituality, suffering, suffering-of-humanity, theism,

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“Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.”

- C.S. Lewis,

Tag: god, goodness, heaven, pain, suffering, theodicy,

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“Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.”

- Criss Jami,

Tag: adversity, attitude, character, different, different-perspective, endurance, endure, existence, faith, faithfulness, god, greatness, happiness, hardship, hope, inspirational, invincible, invincible-will, joy, love, manifest, manifestation, mistaken, misunderstood, motivational, pain, peace, perseverance, perspective, power, powerful, problem, rejoice, seeing-things-in-a-different-way, shame, strength, strong, strong-willed, suffering, understanding, unstoppable, unstoppable-force, will, wisdom,

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“God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.”

- Elisabeth Elliot,

Tag: god, goodness, pain, suffering, trust,

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“MOTHER IS WATERI wish I couldShower your head with flowersAnd anoint your feet with my tears,For I know I have caused youSo much heartache, frustration and despair –Throughout my youthful years.I wish I could give youThe remainder of my lifeTo add to yours,Or simply eraseThe lines on your face,And mend all that has been torn.For next to God,You are the fireThat has given lightTo the flame in each of my eyes.You are the fountainThat nourished my growth,And from your chalice –Gave me life.Without the wetness of your love,The fragrance of your water,Or the trickling sounds ofYour voice,I shall always feelthirsty.”

- Suzy Kassem,

Tag: a-mother-s-love, anoint, chalice, daughter, despair, eulogy, eyes, fire, flowers, forgiveness, fragrance, frustration, god, growth, guidance, heartache, life, loss-of-a-mother, loving, loving-mother, madre, maman, mer, mere, mommy, mother, mother-poem, mother-s-day, mother-s-love, motherhood, mothering, motherly-love, mothers, mothers-and-daughters, mothers-poem, nurture, pain, parenting, poem, poetry, protect, regret, shower-your-head-with-flowers, son, sounds, suzy-kassem, tears, thirsty, voice, water, wish, yearning, youth,

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“What do people mean when they say, ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is good’? Have they never even been to a dentist?”

- C.S. Lewis,

Tag: belief, god, pain,

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“Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.”

- Surgeo Bell

Tag: accomplish, advice, believe, blessings, change, god, happy, hustle, life, love, loyalty, making-money, men, money, motivational-speaker, never-give-up, outcome, pain, poor, real-love, relationships, respect, responsibility, richness, sad, sadness, strong, struggle, trust, woman, women, world, youth,

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“Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.”

- E.A. Bucchianeri,

Tag: blame, blame-game, catholic, catholic-author, christian, gadfly, god, good, good-and-evil, goodness, human-nature, pain, satan, suffering, suffering-of-humanity, sufferings, thought-provoking,

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“If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to make it end. If there was something Higher that controlled out f***ing fates, I would tell it to take my fate and shove it up its fucking ass. Shove it hard and far, you motherf***er. Please end. Please end. Please end.”

- James Frey,

Tag: anger, devil, fates, god, pain,

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“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”

- Criss Jami

Tag: broken, broken-hearts, comforting, crying, doctor, father, god, healing, heart, heartbreak, heavenly-father, hurt, listen, listening, loss, pain, recovery, tears,

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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

- C.S. Lewis

Tag: god, pain,

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“Laughter is the antidote to existential pain”

- S. Spencer Baker,

Tag: aphorism, humour, pain, philosophy,

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