Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderment and not lose your belief in the process. These things allow you to wrestle your faith rather than...

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives – the life of thought, and that of reality.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I...

Learn the discipline of being surprised not by suffering but by joy. As we grow old, there is suffering ahead of us, immense suffering, a suffering that will continue to tempt us to think that...

Grief causes suffering and disease.

My life is but a weavingBetween my God and me.I cannot choose the colorsHe weaveth steadily.Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow;And I in foolish prideForget He sees the upperAnd I the underside.Not ’til the loom is...

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: “He...

As long as there is one person suffering an injustice; as long as one person is forced to bear an unnecessary sorrow; as long as one person is subject to an undeserved pain, the worship...

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane of all of man’s accomplishments, and what a merciful accomplishment it was. For...

Nothing’s wrong. But there’s always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there’s a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God’s eternal...

Is hell the way to heaven? I think it’s the way to hell.

Aeschylus writes, “In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

…she robbed me blind, the bitch!…and she’s still at it! everyone who’s ever done me wrong, robbed me, repudiated me, pillaged me has never suffered…and never will suffer! you could call it their reward!…robbing me...

sweet.” You don’t want faded pastels and honeyed softness.You want mighty. You want the strong arm an unshakable grip of God who will not let you go — no matter what.

One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.

Faith is tested throughout our lives (James 1:3; I Peter 1:7). As the object of our faith proves Himself faithful throughout these trials, our faith grows. Even if we do not have God’s personal revelation...

Through God’s grace, he gives us a wealth of resources to bear any burden he allows. Therefore, if God doesn’t empty our cup of suffering or take it from us, he will give ample grace...

…love is suffering – that’s the happy ending…

Christianity is like a nail,” he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). “The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

There are many who don’t wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don’t wish to wake for the same fear.

Suffering is a part of real life lesson.

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

We will never become the people of hope and blessing we’re meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in...

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful–though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

But maybe that’s how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it’s cool.

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son’s suffering? But another sound can be heard: the...

If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart His love for the world, and this was my most prideful, foolish,...

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering

Siddhartha embarked on a mission that human civilization has been on since its inception – How to overcome pain and suffering in human life. Siddhartha was perhaps the first scientist on the planet who wanted...

The Islamic Republic of Iran holds the American government responsible for the suffering of the Iraqi people and all the crimes and assassinations now being committed in Iraq,

I don’t look at myself as suffering.

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can’t. I don’t know what to say. I’m lost in all this sadness, and so are they.

Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is...

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.

This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read–that God’s ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much...

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that’s taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Behind Calvary’s cross is the throne of heaven.

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.

It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds – this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who suffer deeply. Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one...

When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in sin refuses to change, God sends chastisement. This chastisement need not be external, and...

Consciousness is man’s greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.

One who walks in blindness and confusion cries out more than one who knows why he is suffering.

The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But this time the torture surpassed the bounds of the endurable. At the same...