Suffering Quotes - Page 18

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.

If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

You’re not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have every chance at happiness. You were not meant to suffer. You are loved. Never, ever give up.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.