Suffering Quotes - Page 37

A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.

Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.

The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.

He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God".

That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.

Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'.

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.