Quotes About Suffering

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.