Quotes About Suffering

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love.

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

He whom God loveth, He beateth the hell out of.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

I think I felt God's love the deepest when I experienced my deepest loss. Amazing how God does that!

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'

Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.

No matter how sick your body is, extending Love will reduce your suffering and aid in healing.

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.