Quotes About Suffering

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

Did God who gave us flowers and trees, Also provide the allergies?

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

The truth is... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back...it hurts.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".