Quotes About Suffering

The high priest Caiaphas alludes to this mechanism when he says, "It is better that one man die and that the whole nation not perish." The four accounts of the Crucifix-ion thus enable us to witness the unfolding of the working of the single victim mechanism. The sequence of events, as I have already said, resembles numerous analogous phenomena whose director and producer is Satan. The

The Cross is the equivalent of the Ephesus stoning. To say that Jesus identifies himself with all victims is to say that he identifies himself not only with the adulterous woman or the Suffering Servant but also with the beggar of Ephesus. Jesus is this poor wretch of a beggar. ——————————————————

Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves. Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners. It is another story with curved lines. The song of the curved line is called happiness.

The look in her eyes is of a person who drank from the end of a gun barrel and found it delicious.

Any kingdom that defines glory in terms of a bloody cross is obviously peculiar. — Stanley Hauerwas

When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity.

I snapped to consciousness with the incandescent realization that somewhere, deep in our dreams, or deep in unconsciousness, or deep in the afterlife, all conflicts and acrimonies are resolved. That it was consciousness that so unrelentingly afflicted us with suffering.

death doth not heal, it amputates. Those

We were already living in some kind of Hell in this strange place of broken beauty.

Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

Cada vez que sufrimos, es porque creíamos algo de nosotros mismos que resulta no ser cierto.

Experience makes one come to terms with life, to be at one with the mind and the heart. And most people are suffering in some way.

It's hard to imagine there is a God at the moment, isn't it?" he said. "If I was watching this from up in heaven, I'd want to step in and put a stop to it.

It's not fair. But then nothing has been fair for a long time, has it? All those chaps I flew with who went down in flames. All those poor sods sitting at dinner in their houses who were blasted to pieces by doodlebugs. And the poor, damned wretches in the concentration camps. None of them deserved to die.

Cómo conciliar el sueño cuando lo mejor sería morirse.

You think there can be love without suffering? Having without losing?

Nations customarily measure the "costs of war" in dollars, lost production, or the number of soldiers killed or wounded. Rarely do military establishments attempt to measure the costs of war in terms of individual human suffering. Psychiatric breakdown remains one of the most costly items of war when expressed in human terms

There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.

God overcomes the world not through a show of force but through the suffering and death of Jesus, "the faithful witness [martys]" (1:5).

They walked on, somehow in step, although all three of them were bent forever in different shapes by the pains that pulled them.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.