Suffering Quotes - Page 122

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.

You can and you must expect suffering.

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

You can't do God's work without suffering.

The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end.

Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.