Suffering Quotes - Page 48

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world.

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice or support his dignity, gave himself utterly unto them, and therein to the Father by doing his lovely will; who suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his, and lead them up to his perfection.

Attachment leads to suffering.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.

A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.