Ephraim Mirvis Quotes

I've been through a lot and if God can use that story to help people through a lot of pain and heartache and share hope with people, well we'll see how it progresses.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ, you have everything.

I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.