Quotes about Suffering
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
— Pablo Picasso
The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.
— NT Wright
I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
— Mother Teresa
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
— Albert Camus
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
— Albert Schweitzer
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
— CS Lewis
You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
— Margaret Atwood
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
— Graham Greene
The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
— Julian of Norwich
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
— Bill Hybels