As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art – a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead,...

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Ever since the morning, Pierre had beheld many frightful sufferings in that woeful white train. But none had so distressed his soul as did that wretched female skeleton, liquefying in the midst of its lace...

Because I couldn’t bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch?

If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual’s pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

At last she sighed.”But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should...

One day, when I thought I was alone, I prayed in church. While making this offering before the cross, a parishioner came up to me, put her arm around my shoulder and prayed, ‘Dear God,...

When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;The flame shall not hurt thee; I only designThy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.

Some truths can only be seen in the dark.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the...

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at...

Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms...

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

This passage, by the way, doesn’t just give us the comparative negative of hell, but it translates well into a theology of suffering. With these words of Jesus in mind, I can now know that...

Suffering has a noble purpose.

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, “God, you don’t know what it’s like! You don’t...

When words can’t make it better, hold my hand and don’t let go.

All believers in Christ, the Scripture teaches, will suffer-all of us. You will be glorified, Paul says, if you suffer with him. The problem with too many of us is not that we don’t suffer,...

But why all these questions?Because I’m in love and I’m afraid of suffering.Don’t be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering.

This you have to understand. There’s only one way to hurt a man who’s lost everything. Give him back something broken.

He’s been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn’t so cruel.

Si hay sufrimiento hay vida, y si hay vida nos queda el consuelo de la esperanza

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way...

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only...

Time, what God first deemed holy above all else (Genesis 2:3). Thank God for the time, and very God enters that time, presence hallowing it…. I awake to I AM here. When I’m present, I...

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.

It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the...

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering...

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

When a physical illness or other adverse circumstance arises, humans tend to add to the problem by worrying and increasing the mental anxiety in their situation. Let’s take illness as an example. We have to...

Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid colors and little joy. Hell is a heavy vibration that drags us spiraling...

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the...

Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it...

Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee Save Me, save only Me?All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for thy harms.But just that thou might’st seek it in my arms....

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job…

God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His...

Querida quem faz arte sofre como os outros só que tem um meio de expressão.

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.