Quotes about Suffering
Hell is life drying up.
— Joseph Campbell
Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
— Mother Teresa
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.
— Paulo Coelho
Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.
— Pope John Paul II
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
— George Eliot
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
— Elie Wiesel
You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
— Francis Schaeffer
God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.
— Joshua Harris
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?
— Kay Arthur
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
— Margaret Atwood
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
— John Donne
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?
— Max Lucado