God does not remove us from all harm; He uses harm to move us close to Him.

Right, you’ve got a crooked sort of cross…” He consulted Unfogging the Future. “That means you’re going to have ‘trials and suffering’ — sorry about that — but there’s a thing that could be the...

There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his...

I realized that more and more I was saying, ‘It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million...

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That’s presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

Oh, with my pathetic, earthly, Euclidean mind, I know only that there is suffering, that none are to blame, that all things follow simply and directly from one another, that everything flows and finds its...

Hold strong to your faith; better days are being prepared for you by God. So be patient enough to get rewarded for all your pain and suffering.

Every time someone reaches out to you, even if it’s to point out your sin and they seem to be judging you, it is a token of God’s mercy. He sees the past, present, and...

A gem, like you, is made beautiful by being polished. It’s not an easy undertaking, but a stone that exists undisturbed among others just is…but the most beautiful stand out because they face being alone,...

There’s no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God....

Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one… That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Our past may explain why we’re suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

I don’t understand why it’s a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.

Even in the darkest cloudsThere are specks of joyOut of the darknessComes lightJust as dayAlways follows night

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Once past the comfort zone in either direction, humans soon lost the ability to discriminate bad from worse.

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God’s theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers,...

Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation...

There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

The best remedy for people who have become your headache is to take a ‘chill pill’ from your willingness to endure their misery.

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?

Tis better to suffer wrong than do it

The one who sees thought as a thought is the witness to mind and no longer subject to suffering.

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can’t feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the nature of...

For the first time in this 11 years–I have come to love the darkness–for I believe now that it is a part, a very, very small part of Jesus’ dakness and pain on earth. You...

Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant only if right is relevant in this context, and it is not. A...

The mighty trojans fell, and so did i.A wooden horse you were not, yet in a pool of my own blood i lie.Dawn follows every dusk, and all that rises – fall it must.So, my...

out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your...

Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

You shall love the Lord your God” become in the end less a command than a promise.

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Nobody wants to be alone in misery. Cara experienced no shame in admitting that need. Not only did she not want to suffer alone, she demanded co-suffering from all who dared love her.

I might show it to you, but you’d never see it. The privilege isn’t given to every one; it’s not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, innocent person like you. You...

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

She reminded him of (…) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lousy...

Well, hope for your thrilling career – but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you – then someone...