Quotes About Suffering

hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem.

evil is revealed when there is seen what it does to one who is loved.

greatest poverty of all—the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God:

Our Lord never spoke of His Heavenly, or Risen Glory without bringing in the ignominy of the Cross.

we suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.

An unsuffering Christ Who did not freely pay the debt of human guilt would be reduced to the level of an ethical guide;

If we start (as we must) at the bottom of the ladder, having compassion on all men, nothing that happens to others is foreign to us. Their grief is our grief, their poverty our poverty.

The crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble

What have I done to deserve this' if a cry of pride. What did Jesus do? What did Mary do? Let there be no complaint against God for sending a cross; let there only be wisdom enough to see that Nary is there making it lighter, making it sweeter, making it hers

One can well believe that a crown of thorns, and that steel nails were less terrible to the flesh of our Savior than our modern indifference which neither scorns nor prays to the Heart of Christ.

God does not always spare the good from grief. The Father spared not the Son, and the Son spared not the mother.

But the Woman gave Our Lord His human nature. He asked her to give Him a human life—to give Him hands with which to bless children, feet with which to go in search of stray sheep, eyes with which to weep over dead friends, and a body with which to suffer—that He might give us a rebirth in freedom and love.

The Divine Savior never said to His Apostles: "Be good and you will not suffer" but He did say: "In this world you shall have tribulation.

But He pointed to His torn and battered Self on a hill, and then added that only through the Cross in their lives will there ever be beauty of soul in the newness of life.

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the death of our Lord and his broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on the way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

To be devoid of love is the essence of hell.

The skin of Christ is the parchment, His blood the ink, the nails the pen. There we see written the story of our life.

The refusal to love is hell.

People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed

Ille mi par esse deo videtur ille, si fas est, superare divos, qui sedens adversus identitem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem, misero quod omnis eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te, Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus flamma demanat, sonitu suopte tintinant aures gemina, teguntur lumina nocte. otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est; otio exsultas nimiumque gestis; otium et reges prius et beatas perdidit urbes.

If something terrible happens to me, it's not my job to spare you from my pain.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

When the lover goes, the vow though broken remains, that trace of eternity love brings down among us stays, to give dignity to the suffering and to intensify it.

The 'unsharable' nature of pain, Scarry goes on to argue, triggers a chain reaction that isolates the bearer of pain and frequently leads to a lack of compassion, alienation and often even cruelty on the part of those who are not afflicted and lack the capacity to acknowledge, let alone comprehend its existence.