Suffering Quotes - Page 28

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.

All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life