Suffering Quotes - Page 87

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.

In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

Unlike national markets, which tend to be supported by domestic regulatory and political institutions, global markets are only 'weakly embedded'. There is no global lender of last resort, no global safety net, and of course, no global democracy. In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and are therefore prone to instability, inefficiency, and weak popular legitimacy.

In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.