“It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”
Thornton Wilder
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
Blaise Pascal
“For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God”
John Calvin
“The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.”
“Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries”
William Shakespeare
“Furious at his own misery, he sought the cause in the misdeeds of other men, and turned upon them in savage battle, thus magnifying a thousand times the ills that Nature has provide”
Bertrand Russell
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