Suffering Quotes - Page 16

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

If you can have faith in your real self, you'll suffer less. Be bold about who you really are.

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

Birth isn't something we suffer but something we actively do and exult in!

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. 'Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?' He says, 'So my master will suffer loss.'

Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees everything differently. It is not that at all. Suffering isn't going to go away; the one who suffers is going to go away.

If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering.

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.