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“Don’t think your case unique; it can be matched many times over. Don’t give yourself to pity; the temptation will be to feel sorry for yourself; a self-pitying self is a pitiable self; don’t allow yourself to slip on that. Don’t give yourself to excessive grief. Many do it, thinking they thereby show their love. Don’t retail your sorrows; doing so will cause them to grow. Don’t resign yourself to sorrow and feel it will continue. Don’t complain; the more you complain about things the more things you will have to complain about.”
The point
A list of counsel from E. Stanley Jones on how to respond to trouble, emphasizing not to pity oneself, not to complain, and not to exaggerate sorrows.
Audience
AdultsYouthSmall Group
Tone
Sobering · Convicting · Hopeful
To tell aloud
under a minute · 93 words