179 quotes found
“The tears of God are the meaning of history.”
“If God has entrusted us with suffering, let us set our hearts and minds to work together with Him to enable Him to bring out of our trials all the glory He longs us to know.”
“... that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.”
“Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.”
“He who is afraid of suffering, is already suffering fear. Out of fear, true creativity is blocked.”
“One of the primary purposes of suffering is not to weaken the heart of the feeble, but to strengthen the spirit of the brave.”
“Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.”
“Sooner or later suffering will find you, It's better you find it first.”
“Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, fu...”
“When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you, then remember it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross”
“Lewis is a rare example of someone who liked to think about life's great questions because they were forced on him by his own experience.”
“As a jailer, I never got to understand my charges. But when I became a bandit, I spent a lot of time being close to the lowliest of the low: criminals, the enslaved, deserters, men who had nothing ...”
“Before it was just her infernal curves that fretted me, but now I've taken her whole soul into my soul, and through her I've become a man!”
“Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.”
“The faces stood out, separate, lonely, no two alike. Behind each, there were the years of a life lived or half over, effort, hope and an attempt, honest or dishonest, but an attempt. It had left on...”
“That was what made the story epic: the player, the hero, had to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering. Most people couldn...”
“Because its not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding in the process. We become cold and indifferent. When, for the first time in our lives, we prope...”
“There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.”
“Whenever we suffer no matter what the severity of our suffering is we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.”
“You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.”
