Quotes about Suffering

It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.

and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

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Our brother Darl in a cage in Jackson where, his grimed hands lying light in the quiet interstices, looking out he foams.

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.

There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry Help!

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

God has predestined every single one of us for fruitfulness. (See John 15.) We need to be familiar with a place of divine intimacy in which we are so consumed by the Holy Spirit that we will nurture and protect the seed He places in us. We need to fearlessly step out and activate His promises. It is intimacy that gives us the grace and strength we need to push through suffering, pain, and inconvenience.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.