Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it…

How I wish, how fervently I ache, to take my mother’s hand, kiss her check,tell her I love her, and watch her smile. For me it was not, nor can ever be. But for you,...

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

And as if suffering ever taught anybody a thing except to thank God when it ended.

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age.

Why the Romans, Father?” I asked him one afternoon. “Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead,” he answered.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

No. Go through the fire and I’ll be with you.

It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn’t.

Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our...

Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others. Then there are those who seem to exist for pain’s sake only; that in the end the wrathful fire...

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains...

/…/, for unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.

It’s true, I suffer a great deal–but do I suffer well? That is the question.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the...

I don’t really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Resistance makes a man think new thoughts he never considered before. It makes a man ask questions he never asked before. It makes a man seek answers he never sought before. It makes a man...

At Gethsemane: “Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the...

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the...

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

Jesus says we are blessed when we are hated, ostracized, insulted, and ridiculed on earth, because of Him.

He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep.

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer’s, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, ‘Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who...

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not....

My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either in thought or narrative, is not in my power. Never in all her life...

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

Dream thieves are those who leave their real dreams aside and struggle to pick other people’s dreams to work on. They suffer to do attempt what they can’t do,

I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in...

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Hell, he now understood, went beyond simple torture. Hell inflicted agony with intermittent reprieves to maintain the hope of peace. Hell was not endless dark, but rare rays of sunlight to keep one’s eyes longing...

Perhaps,” you will add, grinning, “those who have never been slapped will also not understand” – thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as...

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

When I feel sad, I try to think of someone else in the world who is suffering worse than me. Like someone in Seattle, who is hurting so bad financially that instead of a vente...

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a...

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For...

And you thought: they’re used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more, that they were used to it, that they no longer felt it as...

Love is suffering only when one refuses to love.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.

Suffering sucks. Don’t do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go homeand base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a...

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, ‘Laziness and Procrastination’.

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

I’m hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what’s going to happen next, so you always...

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, “Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face.” I said to her,...