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“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”
“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”
“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”
“Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.”
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is out thereas long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your sufferingthe situation is hopeless. It means that you are foreve...”
“God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the ha...”
“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
“Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.”
“Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.”
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
“Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefor...”
“If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You dont have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In ...”
“Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering.”
“If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.”
“We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.”
“Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.”
“Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.”
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”
“At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.”
