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Quotes About Suffering

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.
~ Hans Kung
God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.
~ Pope Francis
O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.
~ Bernadette Soubirous
Hearts Live By Being Wounded
~ Oscar Wilde
To love the world is to be afflicted.
~ Yunus Emre
From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.
~ Mechthild of Magdeburg
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
~ Isabel Allende
My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.
~ Ewan McGregor
Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.
~ Eric Berne
The more you love, the more you suffer.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
~ Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
~ John Henry Newman
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
~ J. C. Ryle
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
~ Catherine Deneuve
Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.
~ Ghada al-Samman
Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me.
~ David
The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Love must wait; it must break one's bones.
~ James Salter
Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.
~ Brother Lawrence
Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.
~ Bill Hicks