Quotes About Suffering

Wheat—like men and women—benefits from being crushed. Crushing makes it fit to stand up all the better.

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into this world" (John 16:21).

Naive hope is based on wishful thinking, but a hope formed from suffering, perseverance, and character and rooted in faith in God is something else entirely. It is realistic, motivating, and awesome. It helps us see beyond the misery of the immediate to the possible. It is founded on the certainty of the Lord's love and power.

The few and scattered references of freedpeople suffering from the challenges of emancipation have been overlooked because these episodes do not fit into the patriotic narratives of the Civil War.

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)

he pretty much made me feel like there's no use struggling anymore, that most everybody that dies goes to hell, and heaven isn't anything but a great wilderness.

God's connection to the poor and suffering is so deep that a response of compassion is insufficient. What might this response be?

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

Lost in a Roman wilderness of painAnd all the children are insane

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

No one knew that a killer was already moving through their streets with them, an invisible stalker that would go house to house until it had touched everyone, rich or poor, in some terrible way.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

the cure for a toothache was to slap the other side of your face.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

You" is emphatic. When the eye keeps steadfastly fastened on God's judgments upon a guilty world and upon His assured Promise of personal Salvation, then the heart is delivered from Earthly expectations and is, at the same time, prepared to suffer calamities in sympathy with national distress.)

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.

The hard floor makes my head ache more than it did before, but I don't get up. I don't move. I feel all the ugliness and shame I've bottled up pour over me and cover me like a blanket.

Sofrimento passado é glória, é sal em cinza.

É de notar que o ar vem do ar. De sofrer e amar, a gente não se desafaz.