A joyful heart makes a good face, but by pain of heart the spirit is stricken.
And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, and not to you is sickness? This is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid.
Anxiety in a man’s heart makes it depressed, but a good word makes it glad.
A heart of healing is the life of the flesh, but jealousy is the rottenness of the bones.
All the days of the afflicted one are evil days, but a good heart is a continual feast.
A joyful heart makes good healing, but a stricken spirit dries the bones.
The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but who can bear a stricken spirit?
Do not let your heart be troubled; you believe into God, believe also into Me.
For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we had our conduct in the world in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.
So that on the contrary, you ought rather to forgive and comfort such a one, that he not be swallowed up by the excessive grief.
For the grief according to God works repentance to salvation without regret. But the grief of the world works death.