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“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”
“Much more likely youll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If Ive got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.”
“They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?”
“Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.”
“Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.”
“I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We love apocalypses too much, and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its th...”
“You know, with talented people....They draw people to themselves, and without even trying to, they tear them to shreds.”
“We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high ...”
“Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be th...”
“I venture to say Kierkegaard meant that truth has lost its force with us and horrible pain and evil must teach it to us again, the eternal punishments of Hell will have to regain their reality befo...”
“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
“It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.”
“Murder rectifies nothing.”
“And you thought: they're used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more, that they were used to it, that they no longer felt it as you did. Nobody...”
“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flo...”
“Together we learned why God has given us His name as "I AM" (Exodus 3:14). His grace always proved itself sufficient in the moment of need, but never before the necessary time, and rarely afterward...”
“You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.”
“What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans small and large, crude and multifaceted that concern ...”
“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....”
“We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.”
