Suffering Quotes - Page 34

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role. Suffering its consequences, one fathoms and exhausts its contents.

Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others' lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering.

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths... I can see much to admire in all religions... But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer. Not to love is to suffer.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.

The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.