There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being...

But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of others. We must pray the Holy Spirit to change our hearts of stone into hearts...

It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause...

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Hamas, they are using civilians’ lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.

God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn’t bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it’s hard to see, it’s...

Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and...

Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the army. After a brief period of training at a base in...

Who are we aligning ourselves with? Are we aligning ourselves with the presence of God as it is abused, broken, bleeding, and mocked and scorned even now in this world? Do we take that one...

…it was inevitable I loved you – we were soul mates – for the same reason, we were fated to suffer…

I love my mother.My mother loves my dad.Those two facts are undeniable.I want my father to live.I want him to fight to live as long as he can.My mother wants to let him pass.She does...

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?

A life I didn’t choose chose me.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.

Toda vida, le dijo esa noche Epifanio a Lalo Cura, por más feliz que sea, acaba siempre en dolor y sufrimiento. Depende, dijo Lalo Cura. ,Depende de qué, buey? De muchas cosas, dijo Lalo Cura....

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry.

Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death. Until that day arrives, the case against God must rely on incomplete evidence....

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I’ve been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, ‘Let’s look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer...

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

What could ever tempt me to share my pain? Why willingly increase it by coming close to another human being, inevitable causing severe damage with the sharp edges of my broken heart?

Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don’t forgive, you are the one who suffers.

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human...

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

The answer to the problem of suffering is not away from the problem but in it. The inevitability of pain will not be met by deadening sensitivity but by increasing it, by exploring and feeling...

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

You don’t change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking...

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,—Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate?

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people’s lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

To experience what isn’t, love what is.

Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times.

So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men take this farce as something serious, and that is their tragedy....

Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained.

prove” I wasn’t a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm’s way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than...

People, most especially those who have known ease in this life, care more about being prospered than refined. It’s always about what they can get from God, not what they can do for others, unless...

pain is like the cold. do not give it your attention. but unlike the cold do not deny being in pain

After suffering something like that, it was sort of difficult to stand over a ball and hit it.

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble–times when I have seen people tempted to deny God–when he says, “The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but...

it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.

One great help here – and I make no claim that it is the only help or even a necessary condition for forgiveness – is sincere repentance on the part of the wrongdoer. When I...

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my...