Quotes About Suffering

in damages to the families of the American victims. Yet

Other believers had suffered in this country. Others had died at these hands, and hands like them. Jesus had suffered far worse. He had suffered and bled and died for her. For her sins. To set her free. To adopt her as a child into His family. To bring her into His Kingdom. Forever. How could she not be willing to suffer and bleed and die for Him? If that's what He asked, she would do it. With the strength He gave her. By the grace He provided. And maybe she would see Him soon, face-to-face.

This is what drives me crazy whenever I hear people say things like, "Ask the universe for what you want, and you'll get it," why I fucking hated that Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist that everybody was reading int he late nineties. Whenever I saw the book in anybody's hands on the subway I always wanted to say, "So the reason a million Tustis were just slaughtered in Rwanda is that they didn't ask the universe not to kill them ?

Just as there are seasons of growth, there are seasons of pruning. Without pruning, we won't become all we are created to be. God won't let you go through a cutback if it's not going to eventually work for your good.

God never said we would understand everything along the way. He didn't promise that there wouldn't be any pain, suffering and disappointments. But He did promise that it would all work out for our good.

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying," wrote John Flavel.

listen to these words of Ann Griffiths, a humble Welsh Calvinistic Methodist who was a farmer's wife and who died in 1805 at the age of 29 when giving birth to her first child: Gladly

When civilisation declined, it was the women who always suffered most.

On days like this, I would just disappear if it weren't for you and your love, like nails in my feet.

Sometimes two people can love each other, even though one is a wrist and the other a razor.

The reality, as I now see it, is that death happens, and that death often happens in ways that seem horrific. Refusing to eat meat does not stop that.

We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain.

Pain. You overwhelm me," he said quietly. "And every time I see you or think of you, I can't grab a brush fast enough. I thought I couldn't paint you, but it turns out I've been painting you all along, from the beginning, before I even knew you.

He understood that she'd always believed herself cursed, his angel. That she lived on stolen time. That she deserved nothing..

No mi krš?ani upu?eni smo po središtu našega Creda - 'mu?en pod Poncijem Pilatom' - u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja i mu?enja, u kojoj se plakalo i tako rijetko ljubilo. I nikakav od povijesti udaljeni mit, nikakav Platonovi idejni Bog, nikakva gnosti?ka soteriologija i nikakav apstraktni govor o povijesnosti naše egzistencije ne mogu nam vratiti onu nedužnost koju smo u toj povijesti izgubili.

U krš?anstvu doduše poznajemo kultnu anamnezu; no imamo li - barem u za?ecima - doista anamneti?ku kulturu koja kultski spomen muke povezuje s našim povijesnim iskustvima te tako sprje?ava da muka na koncu bude slavljena samo kao od povijesti udaljeni mit?

Radi se mnogo više - i to isklju?ivo - o pitanju kako uop?e valja govoriti o Bogu pred neizmjernom poviješ?u trpljenja svijeta, 'njegovoga' svijeta. To je pitanje, kako ga ja vidim, glavno pitanje teologije; ona ga ne smije niti eliminirati niti svojim odgovorom prepuniti.

Tko npr. formulira govor o Bogu Abrahamovu, Izakovu i Jakovljevu tako da se u njemu više ne ?uje Jobov uzdisaj i tužaljka 'Ta dokle još?', taj se ne bavi teologijom nego mitologijom.

Trpljenje patnikâ nije ništa veliko ni uzvišeno; u svome korijenu ono je sve drugo samo ne solidarno trpljenje, ono nije naprosto znak ljubavi, nego je daleko više naznaka za to da se više ne može ljubiti.

Odakle dolazi dojam da je Crkva lakše izlazila na kraj s krivcima-po?initeljima negoli s nedužnim žrtvama? Nije li naša kristologija toliko pretjerano determinirana soteriološki da više niti ne dopušta teodicejsko pitanje (na koje se niti može dati odgovor niti ga se može zaboraviti)?

Nismo li možda tijekom vremena tuma?ili krš?anstvo suviše isklju?ivo kao religiju osjetljivu za grijeh te u skladu s tim premalo osjetljivu za trpljenje?

Great souls suffer in silence.

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.