Suffering Quotes - Page 67

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.

The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that's a step in the right direction.

Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective memory of migration, suffering and transformation while living in South Carolina.

This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering.

There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.

The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

"How are you doing?" - - - better than I deserve.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.