Quotes about Suffering

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered . . . Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.

Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!

King's crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.

The holiness of the saints will not excuse them from sufferings.

It was more for Christ to suffer one hour than for us to have suffered forever.

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.