Suffering Quotes - Page 77

Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates the discharge of urine.

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.