Suffering Quotes
God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.
It is better to rage against the preventable suffering/because it leads to the suggestion of gorgeous alternatives/than to express our sadness.
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.
Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.
I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.
Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.
My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.
As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.
The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.
Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?
The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.
I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.
