Quotes About Suffering

Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.

She will be your living hell.

My suffering helps me to find grace of strength.

Whoever suffers knows the strength of suffering.

You Can't Live If You Can't Die

True enough. I say this all the time.Trez looked at his hands. "I didn't ask for this.""No one asks for life." The executioner hiked iAm's body up higher. "And sometimes they do not ask for death...

If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.

Suffering tests the strength of faith.

Further evidence of perpetrators' lack of overt psychopathology is found in reports of their early reactions to the human suffering caused by their extraordinary evil. A wide range of perpetrator accounts reveal that initial involvement in killing often led to nightmares, anxiety attacks, debilitating guilt, depression, gastrointestinal problems, temporary impotence, hallucinations, substance abuse, numerous bodily complaints, and many other signs of stress reactions.

S)lavery could not function without the lubricant of violence. . . The whip accompanied the lives of the enslaved from the moment they entered an Atlantic slave ship to their dying days in slavery.

If Jesus' death is different, it is not because he suffered more than other martyrs, either physically or spiritually, nor because his death was lonelier, or more humiliating, or more gruesome (despite Mel Gibson's heroic attempt to render it so). This common idea is quite mistaken. Such considerations are not what make Jesus' death unique. The uniqueness of his death is found in its meaning

I have received the cross from your hands. I have carried it, even as you have laid it upon me, and I will continue to carry it until I die. Truly the life of a devoted servant is the cross, but it leads to paradise. I have begun the journey of the cross. May I not turn back nor leave it.

I look at you and feel so old, Will. It's been a hundred years of misery, all this. I feel ancient." Goodrich sought to brighten him, falling back on their old pattern of challenge and retort as naturally as if it were two years before. "You are ancient, Mark. The suffering Jew." He laughed, chiding his old roommate. "Duty-bound to suffer over wrongs. Perceived or otherwise.

is there so much suffering, so much death? I was told that God's ways are incomprehensible, and that in many cases, a Job-like humility

You can be happy about a lot of things in your life, yet just one thing can make you miserable.

an insidious form of pride had crept into my heart and taken up residence: the pride of suffering. p 297

my life was only one of countless stories of human pain; that though I had considered myself the prima donna of sufferers, I was simply one of a vast troupe; that darkness indeed descends upon every man and woman, but that moon and stars also shine down upon all. p 315

And you know what? I found out that Joe Leonard wasn't the only one who had a scar because of me. I found out that the person's name I had been taking in vain all those years had scars because of me - and not just one. He was nailed to a cross through His hands and feet. He didn't just get hurt for me, He died for me. He did that to pay for my sins, and He did it because He loved me.

Brugge, 14 mei 1978 Ik wil mijn lichaam onderwerpen aan folteringen. Mijn lichaam pijn laten lijden. Mijn lichaam laten sterven. Mijn lichaam laten oprijzen. Om zo zo in het proces van dood en wedergeboorte mijn lichaam los te weken van de realiteit en het te schenken aan de kunst.

The point, Nobu told Sumi, was to find some disciplined way to endure suffering without losing one's sense of identity, dignity, and purpose.

She reminded Sumi of the Japanese custom of gaman. Nobu spoke the ancient word as a charge to her daughter: to have gaman was to endure the unbearable with dignity and forbearance.

As they bore witness to their experiences behind barbed wire in Crystal City and to their brutal transport into war in Germany and Japan, the former internees did not ask why they were made to suffer but how could suffering be endured. The

Even as a child, I understood my family was a casualty of war. It could not be helped.

We are not necessarily doubting," said C. S. Lewis, "that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." He