“Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.”
Source: These Strange Ashes
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Source: Hours of Thought on Sacred Things (1879), p. 190.
Source: Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith
“Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.”
Quoted in Jonathan Fenby; Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
Gail Pennington (May 2, 2004) "Farewell, "Friends": Sitcom's Finale on Thursday Night May Draw Up to 85 Million Viewers", The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F1.
Letter to http://www.sappho.com/letters/vitas-w.html Violet Trefusis (3 September 1950), published in The Other Woman : A Life of Violet Trefusis, including previously unpublished correspondence with Vita Sackville-West (1985) edited by Philippe Jullian and John Nova Phillips, p. 235
Context: It was a real event in my life and my heart to be with you the other day. We do matter to each other, don't we? however much our ways may have diverged. I think we have got something indestructible between us, haven't we? … It has been a very strange relationship, ours; unhappy at times, happy at others; but unique in its way, and infinitely precious to me and (may I say?) to you.
What I like about it is that we always come together again however long the gaps in our meetings may have been. Time seems to make no difference.
“Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.”
Persian Song.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)