Suffering Quotes - Page 80

A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering

Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such 'frontier' values, we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves, and in others, that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.

In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In the depths of every wound we have survived is the strength we need to live. The wisdom our wounds can offer us is a place of refuge. Finding this is not for the faint of heart. But then, neither is life.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer for our beliefs. We want to change the world with a Facebook like. That's not how the world works.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.