Suffering Quotes - Page 50

Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.

I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.

He who doesn't get rid of the I won't be able to avoid suffering the same way that someone who doesn't get apart from fire can't avoid being burn.

The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.

Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.

So my wife said she read this article in a magazine and she said: "You know, maybe you're suffering from premature ejaculation." Yeah, does it look like I'm suffering? Those aren't tears on your belly.

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.

An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.

Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.

Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent.

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel.