Quotes About Suffering

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's?

Everything got blended together. A sensation like pain--only worse, because it wasn't a pain in your body; the pain was in your mind and your mind was you. You were pain itself.

He carried her through the smoking ruins, and she saw that he was weeping. Those are God's own tears, Lacey thought, yearning to reach out and touch them. It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.

Hope was a thing that gave you pain, and that's what this girl was. A painful sort of hope.

It's love that enslaves us...It is the play within the play, the stage on which the tragic drama of our human lives unfold.

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris: "It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.

Common folk suffer when kingdoms rise, Common folk suffer when kingdoms fall.

Silence, too, can be torture.

Max smiled, the smile of comfort, the one you give to someone who's made a big mistake and is suffering the consequences, the one that doesn't help but shows you understand.

Now I begin to be a disciple. . . . Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment, come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)

Pan cierpi, bo Pan za du?o od siebie wymaga. I od innych. Stanowczo za du?o.

Think of a potter taking a misshapen bowl from his wheel and pounding it back into the tub of clay. A soul suffers while it is being pounded in this way, and suffers until it ceases to be. You are pounded down, and that which was you gets into something else. God tries again, and tries until the Work is complete. Meanwhile you, my son, are long gone

Being dead is bad enough. Being dead and still having to walk around and eat is so much worse.

it's not the despair that destroys you, it's the hope.

For ten days, all I'd had to wash in was the piss-pot, and the nearest water was the pump, five flights of narrow, winding steps down, and loneliness had been the least of my problems, if you count tiny things that bite as company. I'm not the most fastidious of men, but I don't like it when I turn into the sort of creature I'd cross the street to avoid.

When our flesh stops trying, when it is thoroughly crushed and broken, His purposes for our lives are unhindered, and we bring true glory to His name. First Peter 2:23 (NIV) tells us, "When they hurled their insults at [Jesus], he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.

Real Christians accept suffering as a normal part of following Christ, just as mothers accept labor as a normal part of delivering a baby. "No pain, no gain" applies to world evangelism as well as exercise programs! Until we can accept suffering, sacrifice and self-denial as routine and normal, we will never see the Great Commission fulfilled in our generation.

To look into the sad eyes of a hungry child or see the wasted life of a drug addict is to see only the evidence of Satan's hold on this world. All bad things, whether in Asia or America, are his handiwork.

Isn't there something beyond pain? Isn't there something beyond determination? Isn't there something beyond the body?

The suffering of being imprisoned rests in the fact that it is impossible, at any time, to escape from oneself.

I'm used to it. Try slamming your fist into a brick wall every day. Eventually you won't even feel the pain anymore.