Quotes About Suffering

Some sit on the throne of pleasure, while others roast in the electric chair of awareness. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Even God created His own hell for the people He loves so much.

God loves everyone, to the point that He will permit evil to befall those who are not ready to defend themselves.

Only after experiencing pain can we enjoy pleasure and derive happiness from it.

Pain has become your motto in life and heaven your final goal.

Some people claim that expectation is the source of all misery, while others claim that attachment is the root cause.

The Africans have suffered so much from the political oppression, economic exploitation and social degradation.

The cry on the cross is a humanly cry that cannot be attributed to the man who has faith in the Creator.

The truth is that some pains will make you suffer while others will also make you stronger.

There is no doubt that corruption is the first ingredient of poverty and suffering in any environment.

There is no sane individual who is addicted to suffering, unless you have been brainwashed since childhood.

Too much poverty, like living in the same conditions as Job, could lead many to become atheists.

What kind of God would wait for billions of years before sending someone in the world to be killed for the sins of the people?

Deliverance is not the same as freedom. Deliverance is release from the oppressor, but freedom is deliverance from oppression.

We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the message of the kingdom. The kingdom…goes out into the world vulnerable, suffering, praising, praying, misunderstood, misjudged, vindicated, celebrating: always – as Paul puts it in one of his letters – bearing in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed.

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

29"I'll tell you the truth," replied Jesus. "No one who has left a house, or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children, or lands because of me and the gospel 30will fail to receive back a hundred times more in the present age: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands—with persecutions!—and finally the life of the age to come. 31But plenty of people at the front will end up at the back, and the back at the front.

Albert Schweitzer, a century or more ago, used another strong image. Jesus, he said, was like a man convinced the wheel of history was going to turn in the opposite direction. He waited for this to happen, but it didn't. Then he threw himself upon the wheel, and it crushed him—but it did indeed start to turn in the other direction.

Creation is good, but it is not God. It is beautiful, but its beauty is at present transient. It is in pain, but that pain is taken into the very heart of God and becomes part of the pain of new birth.

Love will always suffer. If the church tries to win victories either all in a rush or by steps taken in some other spirit, it may appear to succeed for a while. Think of the pomp and "glory" of the late medieval church. But the "victory" will be hollow and will leave all kinds of problems in its wake.

To hope for a better future in this world—for the poor, the sick, the lonely and depressed, for the slaves, the refugees, the hungry and homeless, for the abused, the paranoid, the downtrodden and despairing, and in fact for the whole wide, wonderful, and wounded world—is not something else, something extra, something tacked on to the gospel as an afterthought.

That is our vocation: to be in prayer, perhaps wordless prayer, at the point where the world is in pain.

one cannot forever whistle "There's a wideness in God's mercy" in the darkness of Hiroshima, of Auschwitz, of the murder of children and the careless greed that enslaves millions with debts not their own. Humankind cannot, alas, bear very much reality, and the massive denial of reality by the cheap and cheerful universalism of Western liberalism has a lot to answer for. But

Our task [as Christians] is to be faithful to the calling of the cross; to live in God's new world as the agents of his love,and to pray that the cross we carry today will become part of the healing and reconciliation of the world. We will not understand in the present time how it is that our pain, our illness, our heartbreak, our deep frustration, is somehow taken up into the pain of God and the healing of the world; but if we offer it back to God that is precisely what will happen.