Suffering Quotes - Page 26

Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't understand myself.' This relates to my game: I didn't understand anything!

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct for yourself, or that others construct for you. Rather, He is interested in you, the you who suffers, the you who inflicts suffering on others, the you who hides, the you who has bad days (and good ones). And He meets you where you are.

How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.