Suffering Quotes - Page 8

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.

I believe there are few events in my life which have not happened to many; it is true the incidents of it are numerous, and, did I consider myself an European, I might say my sufferings were great; but when I compare my lot with that of most of my countrymen, I regard myself as a particular favorite of heaven, and acknowledge the mercies of Providence in every occurrence of my life.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.

We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us - loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe - yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.