Suffering Quotes
He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine.
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas
But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.
It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.
When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.
Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.
The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.
The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it.
I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.
That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution
It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.
Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.
The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.