Suffering Quotes

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

Sometimes suffering is a weird attraction.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.

If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying.

Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.