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Quotes About Suffering

YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!
~ Widad Akreyi
She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.
~ Janette Oke, Love Comes Softly
I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
~ Edmonia Lewis
Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.
~ Ogden Nash
God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.
~ Matt Chandler
There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently
~ William Shakespeare
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.
~ Charles Stanley
We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.
~ Jimmy Carter
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
~ Alexis Carrel
Suffering = Pain x Resistance
~ Shinzen Young
You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.
~ Anderson Cooper
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
~ Mason Cooley
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
~ Deborah Cox
To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. The greatest and most overwhelming work of God's love.
~ Paul of the Cross
God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human
~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.
~ Charles Stanley
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
~ Colm Toibin
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
~ Florence Nightingale
To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.
~ Jack Canfield