Quotes about Suffering
Man must suffer to be wise.
— Cicero
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
— AW Tozer
In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.
— Billy Graham
Son of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
— Charles Spurgeon
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
— Cormac McCarthy
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
— Publilius Syrus
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
— Ignatius of Antioch
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
— Mother Teresa
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
— Sojourner Truth