Quotes About Suffering

Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil not that he practices it but he suffers from it.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

Forgive me for needing you to be strong forever. Forgive me for fearing your unhappiness. As you suffer so I shall suffer. As you endure so I shall endure. Hold my hands and walk the old walk one last time, then let me go.

We who are left behind watch you on your way. The long prison of the years unlocks its' iron doors..go free now, into the beautiful land. Forgive us who suffer in this clouded world. Guide us and wait for us, as we wait for you. We will meet again. We will meet again.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

Mi, hátramaradottak, utadra bocsátunk. Sok év rabság vaskapujáról leverve a lakat. Menj hát szabadon a gyönyör? országba. Bocsáss meg nekünk, e befelhÅ'zött világon szenvedÅ'knek. Vezess bennünket, várj bennünket, ahogyan mi téged várunk. Még viszontlátjuk egymást.

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.

No Cross, No Crown.

It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess.

No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

In our sleep, pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom