Sores Quotes

“The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it and say: “You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that. Believe in Christ. Be converted.”

“It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothing. What was chaffed skin, wrecked muscles, bleeding sores? The body chooses to be sore. The body chooses to be exhausted. But the SEAL mind rejects it. The SEAL mind commands the body, not the other way around.”

“Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet.”

“There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.”

“You cannot walk in a great man's shoes without getting sores on your feet.”

“Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous.”

“Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.”

“A beautiful woman is one with a beautiful heart. She may be covered with mud or sores but only her foot fit the glass slipper.”

“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”