Quotes about Suffering

Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death

Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

Gentle Jesu, Mary's son, be thine the wounds that heal our wounding. Press thy bloody scars to ours that thy dear blood may flow in us and cleanse our sin. Be thou in us and we in thee that Godric, Gillian, Ailrod, Mouse and thou may be a woundless one at last. And even Reginald if thy great mercy reach so far. In God's name Godric prays. Amen.