Suffering Quotes - Page 7

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.

Just as Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered, we learn obedience by the difficult circumstances we face. When we obey the Word of God that is spoken by the Holy Spirit, we will grow and mature in the times of conflict and suffering. Our knowledge of Scripture is not the key. Obedience is.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.

Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts.

Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law?

Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.