Quotes about Suffering
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
— Philip Yancey
As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.
— RC Sproul
There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.
— Richard Paul Evans
God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.
— Rick Warren
It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.
— Rob Bell
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.
— John Keats
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I maintain no doctrines of my own; what I preach are the doctrines of Christ, and for those I will forfeit my blood, and even think myself happy to suffer for the sake of my Redeemer.
— John Foxe
My Lord Jesus Christ, for my sake, did wear a crown of thorns; why should not I then, for His sake, again wear this light crown, be it ever so ignominious?
— John Foxe