…you can’t rationalize suffering – it’s indeterminate – the real unknowable variable God substitutes in…

Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ’s Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and–to repeat...

Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,’ she said. ‘Never forget that.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like ‘living’ does not mean it necessarily...

We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint; and providence must either brew a cup of gall and wormwood, mastered in...

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

When something happens to you, suffering doesn’t begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing – as something that is wrong.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and...

It’s hard to know, isn’t it, whether the things we face are just because the world is full of sin and sinful people, or if God is working out a plan,’ Grandma continued. ‘I happen...

The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed.””That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn...

My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent...

Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.

Anticipating death and calling it gain, Christians are evangelists of the grotesque. The very hope of the Gospel rests directly upon our ability to imagine a world in which suffering serves as the soil from...

Good. Bad. The cup holds both.

People often ask: If there’s a God, how can He allow so much suffering in the world? Realize all world suffering you perceive is a mirror to your own psychological self-abuse, gender imbalance, prejudice, poverty,...

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.

No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his grasp. Ever since I stopped having to go hungry, I literally eat life...

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

…having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

He enables [his children] to walk before him; he holds their hand in difficulties; he himself carries them along in hardships that he sees as being otherwise unbearable to them.

Suffering occurs when love’s two hands pull your soul in two directions.

That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated…

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

That’s evolution. Evolution’s always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Suffer” he commanded seductively. “With me…or because of me.

Suffering is like an echo – reflecting it only prolongs it.

To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself–even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.” – Tilopa

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains were disrupted. The only mass form of personal communication was the letter, and...

We rise up And we fall downOnly to rise again

A GUIDED TOUR OF SUFFERING: To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. In it sits a Jew. He is scum. He is starving. He is afraid....

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering

There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don’t yearn to reach out, but because they’ve tried and found no one who cares.

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in the months before her death, to be completely healed. Death is the price...

I don’t feel like I can change the world. I don’t even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another’s suffering.

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God’s fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for ‘the bush was not consumed.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.