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Another lesson that Isaiah gives us is patience. We must learn to suffer patiently all the trials and tribulations of life, and we must do so by waiting upon the Lord for his Deliverance: "They who wait for the Lord will renew their strength, they will fly like eagles on their wings, they will run and not grow tired, walk and not become faint" ( Is 40:31). Patience is a virtue not easily gained, but the Lord asks us to rid ourselves of all uneasiness and haste, and to rest in His love—for it is there that we will be delivered, it is there that we find everlasting peace.
Michael Freze, They Bore the Wounds of Christ
In those times, people cultivated their secrets. You could speak to God at any time, and he would bury your sighs in his nothingness. Now we are inconsolable because we have no one to speak to. We have been reduced to confessing our loneliness to mortals. This world must once have lived in God. History divides itself in two: a former time when people felt pulled towards the vibrant nothingness of divinity and now, when the nothingness of the world is empty of the divine spirit.
Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints
"I cannot differentiate between tears and music" (Nietzsche). Whoever is not immediately struck by the profundity of this statement has not lived for a minute in the intimacy of music. I know no other music than that of tears. Born out of the loss of paradise, music gives birth to the symbols of this loss: tears.
Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints