Suffering Quotes

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?

That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.

The undisciplined mind confuses misfortune with mistakes.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, ' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.

He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her.But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?

Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.Lake

Your pain and sufferings can only make you stronger if you aren't repeatedly placing negative interpretations them.

You have what it takes to push forward or to move backwards, but only one of these directions is capable of compensating you for all your pain and sufferings.

It is quite awful how some people are constantly saying that they are superior to others, but deep down they know that they are suffering from a lot of insecurities.

Your goals and dreams have already caused you a lot pain, and the worst thing that you could do is to let all the sufferings go to waste. By all means make it count with a victorious story.

The hardest thing to do in this world is to have a steadfast mind & will to be who God called you to be.

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.

Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.

I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.

Any great love comes from intense suffering

Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

Both glory and dominion last forever but glory is for God and dominion is for mankind.

Joy is love exalted

We will never know true bliss while our lifestyles are reliant on the misery and suffering of others.

You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.

Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering

I have trodden the winepress alone.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.