Quotes about Suffering
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
— George Eliot
Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed
— Rick Warren
Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.
— Randy Alcorn
Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.
— Louis de Montfort
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.
— Mother Angelica
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
— Khalil Gibran
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
— Isabel Allende