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Quotes About Suffering

But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.
~ David Lubar
Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.
~ David Lynch
If this world is hell, one can only have compassion for those who are obliged to live in it and breathe its poisonous air.
~ David Madsen
In accepting my lot, I also came to understand that suffering was universal, and that there wasn't anyone who was without pain of some kind; the difference between other people's suffering and mine was merely one of degree.
~ David Madsen
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
~ Martin Luther
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.
~ Edward Said
If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.
~ Matt Chandler
God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.
~ Tony Evans
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
~ Ramakrishna
Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.
~ Sarada Devi
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
~ William Bradford
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.
~ Eugene O'Neill
There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
~ Primo Levi
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
~ John C. Maxwell
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
~ Shane Claiborne
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
~ John of the Cross
Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.
~ Billy Graham
I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.
~ Paul Washer
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.
~ Philip Neri