Quotes About Relief

There's relief in the ritual and routine. Seeing the same faces, making the same stops. He's getting through life minute by minute these days—scrounging for reasons to keep going.

Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

There's not a single human being who doesn't find it a relief to be forced to tell the truth.

There's always relief in committing to a decision, even when there's no choice.

I'd say it was a relief to have at last nothing, nothing, but I was too hollow to register relief, too empty to carry it.

The way things ought to be. A turning of seasons and a natural acceptance of life pulling back and many things passing. There was a kind of relief in that, and a sharp beauty. Whose power had much to do with one's ability to hold the losses it augured.

No shit," Jack murmured. He was truly awed and relieved. The implacability and violence of nature always awed him. That it could be entirely heedless and yet so beautiful. That awed him. But also its intricate intelligence. Its balancings. Its quiet compensations. It was like some unnamed justice permeated everything. He would not go further than that. Still, the workings of nature made the voracious, self-satiating intelligence of humans seem of the lowest order, not the highest.

If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself.

When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.

But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

I must speak and find relief; I must open my lips and respond.

Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.

Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.

My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”