Quotes about Suffering

Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers

In worldly terms, she was totally innocent; Eve before the fall, with no knowledge of good and evil. She made one realize how necessary the Fall was; without it, there would have been no human drama, and so no literature, no art, no suffering, no religion, no laughter, no joy, no sin and no redemption. Only camera work (towards which Mrs. Dobbs's painting was reaching) and sociology (which her sister, Beatrice Webb, may be said to have invented).

Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

In the light of His example we can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love, and the channel of His richest blessing. [. . .] Suffering is the way of the rent veil, the new and living way Jesus walked in and opened for us.

Be aware that when the world crucified Christ, it crucified you with Him. However, be aware also that when Christ overcame the world on the cross, He made you a conqueror, too.

In the light of His example, we can prove that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love and the channel of His richest blessing.

Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cuse or cure!