Quotes About Suffering

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.

Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!

King's crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.

The holiness of the saints will not excuse them from sufferings.

It was more for Christ to suffer one hour than for us to have suffered forever.

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

igual que las severas heladas en el invierno conducen a las flores en la primavera, y al igual que la noche da lugar a la estrella de la mañana, así también los males de la aflicción producen mucho bien a aquellos que aman a Dios.

We are never more precious in gods eyes than when we are lepers in our own.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation?

And those who lay in their beds there felt that they were within a wall that the Abbess has built for them. Within all was light and warmth, and without was the darkness they would not exchange even for a relief from pain and from dying.

Doña Clara was in the hands of malignant Nature who reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

El ataque de asma es experimentado por el paciente como un ahogo mortal, el enfermo trata de sorber el aire, jadea y la espiración queda muy dificultada. En el asmático coinciden varios problemas que, a pesar de su afinidad, examinaremos por separado, por motivos didácticos.

I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

And now your dead inside, still you wonder why, when your on the edge and falling off, its all over, for you

If her years as a reporter had taught her anything, it was these two things: One, the world was filled with people who were adrift, rudderless, and untethered. And two, the innocent always paid for the sins of the guilty.

What to do, Smita? She had everything but the gift of years. Nothing we can do. What cannot be cured must be endured.

In her time, she has known the evil that men do. But nothing matches with the evil of the Gods, who, having created humanity, now spend their days teasing and testing it.

unloved, educated or illiterate, wanted or unwanted by her parents, whether or not she suffered hurt and betrayal, or whether she still managed to retain her humanity and nobility? In the end, Bhima thinks, it doesn't matter. It is all ash and dust. This is what it means to be human, she thinks: grains of dust arranged in human form—some dark, some light, some tall, some short, some male, some female. And in the end, the same gust of wind breaks them all down.