Wretchedness Quotes

• We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

  Simone Weil

  God, Contemplating, Knows

  "Attention and Will (1947)". "Gravity and Grace". Book by Simone Weil, p. 216, 1947.

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, Carpe Diem, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• Una gran proporción de la desdicha que ha amargado la vida matrimonial, se ha originado en una negligencia en nimiedades.

  Thomas Sprat

  Casado, Proporción, Tonterías

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• Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Solitario, Soledad, Hombres

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.381

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• I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to.  But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ.  I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him.  But if He does not, I shall not.  Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it.  And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Fall, Fighting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). "Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series", Baker Publishing Group.

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• El destino de millones de nonatos dependerá ahora, bajo Dios, del valor y la conducta de este ejército. Tenemos, por lo tanto, que resolver vencer o morir.

  George Washington

  Fate, Army, Conquer

  1776 General orders, 2 Jul. Quoted in J C Fitzpatrick (ed) Writings of George Washington (1932), vol.5.

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• Nuestro cruel e implacable enemigo sólo nos deja la opción de una valiente resistencia o la más abyecta sumisión. Tenemos, por lo tanto, que resolver vencer o morir.

  George Washington

  Choices, Brave, Enemy

  1776 General orders, 2 Jul. Quoted in J C Fitzpatrick (ed) Writings of George Washington (1932), vol.5.

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• Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

  William Dean Howells

  Long, Community, Suffering

  William Dean Howells (2015). “William Dean Howells - Premium Collection: 27 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Through the Eye of the Needle, An Open-Eyed Conspiracy, Indian Summer, The Flight of Pony Baker, A Hazard of New Fortunes, Ragged Lady & many more”, p.4266, e-artnow

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• Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Riches, Misery, Mercy

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.441, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowing, Sin, Wells

  "Pascal's Pensées: Selections".

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• Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

  Juan Calvino

  Christian, Shame, Wells

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• Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Beggary

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.10

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• ¡Que Dios misericordioso me preserve de una Iglesia cristiana en la que todos son santos! Quiero estar y permanecer en la Iglesia y en el pequeño rebaño de los pusilánimes, los débiles y los enfermos, que sienten y reconocen la miseria de sus pecados, que suspiran y claman a Dios incesantemente pidiendo consuelo y ayuda, que creen en el perdón de los pecados.

  Martin Luther

  Cristiano, Creer, Iglesia

  Martin Luther "Día a día te magnificamos: Lecturas diarias para todo el año", Augsburg Books

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• Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

  Simone Weil

  Sin, Humans

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

  Vicente de Paúl

  Corazón, Compasión, Personas

  Saint Vincent De Paul (2013). “Some Counsels Of S. Vincent De Paul : To Which Is Appended The Thoughts Of Mademoiselle Le Gras”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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• The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

  Philip Slater

  Politics, Our Society, Riches

  Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Men, Circles

  Blaise Pascal (1966). "Pascal Pensées", Penguin Classics

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• The recognition of human wretchedness is difficult for whoever is rich and powerful because he is almost invincibly led to believe that he is something. It is equally difficult for the man in miserable circumstances because he is almost invincibly led to believe that the rich and powerful man is something.

  Simone Weil

  Poderoso, Creer, Hombres

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• Al no poder curar la muerte, la miseria y la ignorancia, los hombres han decidido, para ser felices, no pensar en esas cosas.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorancia, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Grief, Knowledge, Men

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). "O bien"

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• Las historias que tenemos de la gran tragedia no dan idea de la miseria general, la miseria escuálida, que entró en cada vida individual en la región entregada a la guerra. Donde acampaban los ejércitos, la destrucción era absoluta.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Guerra, Ejército, Ideas

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography", p. 76, Vanderbilt University Press.

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• La religión cristiana, afirma [Pascal], enseña dos verdades: que hay un Dios que los hombres son capaces de conocer, y que hay un elemento de corrupción en los hombres que los hace indignos de Dios. El conocimiento de Dios sin el conocimiento de la miseria del hombre engendra orgullo, y el conocimiento de la miseria del hombre sin el conocimiento de Dios engendra desesperación, pero el conocimiento de Jesucristo proporciona al hombre el conocimiento de ambos simultáneamente.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Pride

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• I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

  Beth Henley

  Divorced, My Own

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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• Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Love, Suffering, Dear

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• No hay nada que podamos ver en la tierra que no muestre o la miseria del hombre o la misericordia de Dios. O se ve la impotencia del hombre sin Dios, o la fuerza del hombre con Dios.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Mercy Of God, Doe

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.53, David C Cook

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