The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

Your life will always be the perfect classroom journey for you and every experience that shows up in your journey is here to serve you. There is meaning and purpose behind everything that happens. There...

People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else’s.

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It’s facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go...

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful andpowerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event is therevelation of the deepest truth about the character of God, then...

Let me tell you, I have never suffered nor will ever suffer … only when I take upon myself the suffering of others do I appear to the suffering.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice

Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass.”Wow. Where have you two been all my life?”Pain quirked and eyebrow as he mopped the floor.”Walking hand in...

Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It will not make you strong.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

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 should never have to...

Sometimes I can feel my darkness, like a fragment of nerves inside of me somewhere, sparking my hate. I picture it moving throughout my body, the other cells letting it pass by, yielding to its...

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp...

As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To demand it is to claim that your life is his property – and...

He’s suffering from Politicians’ Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

We all suffer from dreams

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the...

Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

If we have never sought, we seek Thee now;Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars;We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow,We must have Thee, O Jesus of the Scars.The heavens frighten...

If nothing else, there’s comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass…all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing...

Comme son amour fut immense,Immense fut sa souffrance.

Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor….

Break what must be broken, once for all, that’s all, and take the suffering on oneself.

I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.

For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you...

O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild...

…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her.

You’ve been told that you’re broken, that you’re damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don’t buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values...

It is a weakness to suffer when you don’t have to.

Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering; there is some good or positive in this experience.

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

He loves me so he hurts meTo try and make me good.It doesn’t work. I’m just too badAnd don’t do what I should.My memory has so many different sections and, like all survivors, there are...

Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless...

…you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave…

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don’t want any more.

I’ll admit it I’m on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well

Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search...

Sigmund Freud once asserted, “Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase of the imperative urge of hunger all individual differences will blur, and in...

I think both ways are ways to make the world a better place and to reduce the suffering.

You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it.

Encounter Jesus. Suffer with him to experience his life more fully. Be holy in your love for God and his church as God is holy in his love for you and his church. Imagine what...

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt...