The family is the world’s greatest welfare agency, and the most successful. What the federal government has done in welfare is small and trifling compared to what the families of America do daily, caring for their own, relieving family distresses, providing medical care and education for one another, and so on. No civil government could begin to finance what the families underwrite daily. The family’s welfare program, for all its failures from time to time, is proportionately the world’s most successful operation by an incomparable margin.
R.J. Rushdoony
Distress
Patience will benefit you
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.
Abd al-Karim Qasim
As applied to substance
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.
Aaron T. Beck
Anyone who is steady
Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
When you resolve to
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it. Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the … Read more