Top 34 Travail Quotes
#1. It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
Jessica Mitford
#2. People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
Bob Newhart
#3. The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.
Robert Kennedy
#4. Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.
Billy Graham
#5. A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.
Charles Grandison Finney
#6. Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.
John L. Lewis
#7. But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#8. If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.
Ben Salmon
#9. At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!
Leonard Ravenhill
#10. We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we can, with caring, make our good-byes less tormented. If we broaden the circle of our compassion, life can be less cruel.
Gary Kowalski
#11. She seemed to absorb the short-term oscillations of life without being dislodged by them, as though she were actually standing back observing that both travail and elation were merely part of a much larger, much smoother curve.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#12. [The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#13. The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.
Samuel Chadwick
#14. Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.
Parker J. Palmer
#15. Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow. . . .
Oscar Wilde
#16. The work of creation is never without travail.
T. S. Eliot
#17. Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.
Kitt Weagant
#18. In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.
Joseph Hertz
#19. When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
Claire Denis
#20. They wear themselves out in vain travail, without reaching their blessed consummation, because they delight in creatures, not in the Creator.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#21. But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
Julian Of Norwich
#22. Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!
Oswald J. Smith
#23. Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
Padgett Powell
#24. But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick muse doth give another place. I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument Deserves the travail of a worthier pen;
William Shakespeare
#25. Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.
Leonard Ravenhill
#26. An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
Mortimer Adler
#28. If you let your man-made actions to be more frequent than your man-said words you will travail with praise in man-win visions. Do more, say less, win big.
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. You do not beg the sun for mercy.
-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary
Frank Herbert
#30. Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. If Jesus undertook to bring me to glory, and if the Father promised that He would give me to the Son to be a part of the infinite reward of the travail of His soul; then, my soul, till God Himself shall be unfaithful, till Jesus shall cease to be the truth, thou art safe.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#32. Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
Seneca The Younger
#33. It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Jim Bishop
#34. In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime
Ben Sidran
