Quotes About Suffering

Then this beggar with one leg leaned forward: he dropped a coin into the legless man's outstretched hand. There were tears in the first beggar's eyes.

In worldly terms, she was totally innocent; Eve before the fall, with no knowledge of good and evil. She made one realize how necessary the Fall was; without it, there would have been no human drama, and so no literature, no art, no suffering, no religion, no laughter, no joy, no sin and no redemption. Only camera work (towards which Mrs. Dobbs's painting was reaching) and sociology (which her sister, Beatrice Webb, may be said to have invented).

Pain is our salvation 'cos when it's dark enough, a star will reveal itself.

The roots of the abundant life may seem bitter, but its fruits are sweet.

People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope.

In suffering, we build our strength for ultimate success.

In suffering, we build our strength for the ultimate success.

For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

The phoenix must burn to emerge

The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.