Quotes about Suffering

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Maybe the only enemy is that we don't like the way reality is *now* and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering we are being kind to ourselves. the truth is, we only become more fearful, more hardened, and more alienated.

Even Believers can yield to the wrong spirits. Peter once rebuked Jesus, telling Him that He would not suffer.

Job was still in God's will even when he lost his children, wealth, and health.

We enter this world with birth pains and we leave with similar pains of death.

But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe in him, for he would have substituted sight for faith. That is why he does not take us down from our crosses: so that we do not substitute feelings and experiences for faith. He wants the very best for us, the strongest and most precious gift, and that is faith.

That's what's so striking about the title of Kushner's book: When Bad Things Happen to Good People. How is that fair? Well, the answer to that is that there are no good people.

Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.

That freedom is lost in Hell.