Suffering Quotes

Suffering Quote of the day

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

But why all these questions?Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering, " a deep healing begins.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.

[The Lord] does go with us through our sufferings, and He awaits us as we emerge on the other side of the tunnel of testing—into the light of His glorious presence to live with Him forever!

Jesus suffered more than any other person in human history.

The book of Job does not set out to answer the problem of suffering, but to proclaim a God so great that no answer is needed.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ’s love, mercy, and comfort to [others].

Being a Christian does not exempt us from tough training, which may mean suffering. If the training were easy, we would not be prepared for the tough days ahead.

May we store up the truths of God’s Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure.

True faith and suffering frequently go hand-in-hand . . .Living for Christ, walking in His way, will not be an easy path.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

The Bible and the history of the church both demonstrate that God’s way for the suffering of His people has not always been the way of escape, but the way of endurance.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

In my years of global travels, I have seen a world in pain . . . Without God’s guidance, our response to suffering is a futile attempt to find solutions to conditions that cannot be solved.

The Bible teaches that we are to be patient in suffering. Tears become telescopes to heaven, bringing eternity a little closer.

Tens of thousands of God’s saints and sufferers through the ages have found their dark nights lightened and tortured souls strengthened because they found help from the Spirit in the Word of God.

... one fire burns out another’s burning.One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. -Romeo & Juliet

Our sufferings may be hard to bear, but they teach us lessons which, in turn, equip and enable us to help others.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice.

God is not blind. He knows about you and your problems. He knows of those who are suffering . . . and His love for His children will never leave in times of trouble.

When suffering comes, learn to trust each day into God’s hands . . . let your lips be filled with prayer and praise.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

When we're inspired by the desire to practice and transform our suffering, the mind of the moment is very beautiful. Sometimes we call it the mind of love. It's because of love that we practice.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.