Francis Quarles Quotes

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.

You lose more than you win in life, and that's OK. That's the nature of life.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

When pain ends, gain ends too.

Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

What is joy without sorrow? What is success without failure? What is a win without a loss? What is health without illness? You have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. There is always going to be suffering. It’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

The worse that could happen has already happened to me.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!