Quotes About Suffering

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

Good Friday was the worst Friday until Sunday.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

There is no good war.

Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

Everything doesn't have to feel good to be God

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.