Quotes about Suffering

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.

Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.

So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.