People are really suffering these days. There’s a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe in him, for he would have substituted sight for faith. That is why he does not...

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is.

After a brief period of recovery from the financial crises (of 1997-1998), the Asian region is suffering from a mild relapse,

My God, my God, why hast thouforsaken me?” [The answer?] For me — for me.

Esti singur in vartejul suferintei tale si daca vrei sa iesi trebuie sa tragi aer in piept si sa te scufunzi pana se sfarseste. Mai degraba iubeste-o pana cand iubirea ti se face apa si...

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It’s not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they’re in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness – only misery.

Suffering teaches joy.

[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on...

There is silly are people. You must suffer, or cause others to suffer, before you will have respect of one kind or the other from them…I will not stand to be looked at by anybody,...

There’s nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you’ve suffered.

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

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.

Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.

Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else’s suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people...

I understand you.—You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.—For four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at liberty to speak of it to a single...

Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted.Why should life come into existence only to be destroyed? One dies and another is born—for what? A few miserable hours of...

It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

I’ve been asked whether we can justify trying to protect wildlife when there’s so much human suffering on the planet but the two are actually not exclusive.

Quite honestly, there are days when I don’t need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me.

I must give due praise to the man who first extracted morphine from poppyheads. He was a true benefactor of mankind. The pain stopped seven minutes after the injection. Interesting: the pain passed over me...

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one’s one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and...

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician’s role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient’s wishes.

But pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to...

Murder rectifies nothing.

…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.