Rae Carson

I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

American Writer

Jim Elliot

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

American Clergyman

Mother Angelica

Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be.

American Educator

Use 'heart-rending' to describe events or stories that cause profound sorrow.

Deep Sadness

'Heart-rending' suggests that the situation is so sad that it's as if someone's heart is being torn apart.

Empathy Trigger

Reserve 'heart-rending' for scenarios that have extreme emotional impact, not just mildly sad situations.

Emotional Impact

 conceived of a generation ago and some of the most heart-rending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout pleading with me to write to their parents to help them slow down to help them get

Praising slowness - Carl...

 the rain is coming soon but I really really want to show everybody your brand new brand new ish little Cubs especially because we were there for that traumatic slightly traumatic heart-rending moment

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