Grievous Quotes

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.