Quotes About Suffering

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

What can't be cured must be endured.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Patience means self-suffering.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.

I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.