179 quotes found
“Most of the time, thank goodness, we suffer quite stupidly and unreflectingly, like the animals.”
“All to often, suffering exists in a realm beyond vocabulary so we navigate that realm awkwardly, fumbling for the right words, hoping we can somehow approximate an understanding of matters that sho...”
“Faith is tested throughout our lives (James 1:3; I Peter 1:7). As the object of our faith proves Himself faithful throughout these trials, our faith grows. Even if we do not have Gods personal reve...”
“We suffered today, because we know we have tomorrow, to live and to love.”
“The cadence of suffering has begun.”
“In life; threats, misery and pain weigh the same.”
“The answer is that their confidence was actuallh in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he would do. They had inner assurance that God would rescue them. However, they were...”
“And as if suffering ever taught anybody a thing except to thank God when it ended.”
“suffering is a misunderstood pain”
“It's not just the wounded who suffer.”
“When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything.”
“And yet it was not the mystery, but the comedy of suffering that struck him; its absolute uselessness, its grotesque want of meaning. How incoherent everything seemed! How lacking in all harmony! H...”
“Unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.”
“Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.”
“We much be greater than what we suffer”
“We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.”
“Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.”
“Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived...”
“Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch?”
“ It was the knowing that there had been a happier time, a place of joy and peace and security, that made the sudden absence of it all so agonizing Not the agony of what was, but the agony of what w...”
