Suffering Quotes - Page 47

Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes for a long time. It requires us to be more fully and simply alive than we have been taught to be. It may require us to suffer. But ultimately we will be more than we were when we began. There is the seed of a greater wholeness in everyone.

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven.

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

Make a bouquet of the sufferings of Jesus and carry it in the bosom of his soul.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. They tell me they put on a Neil Sedaka record, and it's like medicine. It picks them up, and gets them out of their unfortunate situations.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering.

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

No animal has to suffer for me to live.