Suffering Quotes
Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.
Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.
A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.
If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.
He who doesn't get rid of the I won't be able to avoid suffering the same way that someone who doesn't get apart from fire can't avoid being burn.
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.
Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.
You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.
Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss
The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.