Quotes About Suffering

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures will abandon a person in his suffering, but You, O Lord, are faithful.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

If you let it, pain makes more space for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.