Jesus wept, but He never complained.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the strength in expressing emotions without succumbing to complaints or negativity.
The quote 'Jesus wept, but He never complained' emphasizes the profound human experience of grief and sorrow, yet contrasts it with the notion of resilience and perseverance. It illustrates that it is natural to feel and express sadness, as Jesus did, but one can still maintain dignity and strength during difficult times without allowing those feelings to devolve into complaining or despair.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming adversity, one might say, 'Like Jesus, we may weep, but let's remember to embrace our challenges with courage.'
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.
I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.
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