Quotes About Suffering

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.

It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.

You can and you must expect suffering.

You can't do God's work without suffering.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.