subvert” that brokenness.

Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

Maybe he’s suffering from a case of jet lag. Is he suggesting that we be reduced to truant officers? It seems to me to be a plan obsessed with power and control.

A Brief for the DefenseSorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants. Otherwise...

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the...

Some people ask me, ‘Why do you do what you do with so much passion?’ So I tell them, I prefer to be a helping hand to others than to sit around and watch them...

I hope suffering don’t exist.

People think I’m crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: ‘Suffering is the sole...

Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it’s true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of...

We didn’t let them do anything to us, Travanion,” Beatriss said fiercely, “They did it without out permission.

momentary.” They only last for a short time.

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

There’s no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up into the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke silently...

In suffering we find our truest selves.

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.