Ecclesiastes: Living Life Backwards - The Wisdom of Sadness [Ryan Ashley]

Ecclesiastes 1:12-18, 2:12-17

“As a reader you will have to start off with meaninglessness and wade through twelve chapters of tension, poetry, proverbs, unanswered questions, unsettling speech, and intimate language before arriving at the point he wants to make. Because of this approach, in order to get to the truth he wants us to see, we have to be willing to take a look at the things we do not like.”

Zack Eswine

“Wisdom teaches us that tears, at their best, pay tribute to something lost that was once cherished and it was wise to cherish it.”

Zach Eswine

“Contrary to what some people tell us, sadness is neither a sign of laziness nor a sin; neither negative thinking nor weakness. On the contrary, when we find ourselves impatient with sadness, we reveal our preference for folly, our resistance to wisdom, and our disregard for depth and proportion.”

Charles Spurgeon