Joy Is Not The Absence Of Pain Quotes

#1. True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#2. Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.

Tommy Caldwell

#4. We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

Alexandre Dumas-fils

#5. Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

Jess Bowen

#6. Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.

Walter Dean Myers

#7. And yet
it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I'm a survivor. And I say this with so much pride I could burst into a million tiny pieces at your feet.

Trish Kaye Lleone

#9. The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it.

Charlene Costanzo

#10. Once, he had dreamt that he found [it]. It wasn't the actual finding, but the day after. He wouldn't forget the sensation of the dream. It hadn't been joy, but instead, the absence of pain. He couldn't forget that lightness. The freedom.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.

John Hinckley Jr.

#12. People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been
for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

Ayn Rand

#13. The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.

Baltasar Gracian

#14. The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

Nanamoli Thera

#15. You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

Jim Butcher

#16. What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

Meg Cabot

#17. The service members don't ask much of us. They ask to be well trained. They ask to be well equipped and they ask to be well led. And if something should happen to them, they ask that we take care of their families.

Brian Whitman