Quotes About Suffering

Što ne boli – to nije život, što ne prolazi – to nije sre?a.

Mu?i se ?ovjek dovijeka a nikad nema ni ono što mu treba a kamoli ono što želi.

naši su doživljaji ?esto tako zamršeni i teški da nije ?udo što ih ljudi pravdaju u?eš?em samog Satane, nastoje?i tako da ih objasne ili bar u?ine lakše podnošljivim.

Bojao sam se i krvi koju sam ?uo kako bije u mom ru?nom zglobu jer me je uvjeravala da živim, a to je bilo isto što i patnja.

I evo, naišla je ova gor?ina, kojom mi se prese?e srce nadvoje, da me podseti na ono što sam, zagledan u nebo, zaboravio: da je hlebac koji jedemo ustvari ukraden; da smo za život koji nam je dat dužni zloj sudbini - grehu, taksiratu; da sesa ovoga sveta na onaj bolji ne može pre?i dok se kao zrela vo?ka ne otkine, ne poleti u bolnom i strmoglavom padu, i ne tresne o tvrdu zemlju. Valjda se i raju nosi modrica toga pada.

There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

The extent and extenuation of your pain renders you unconscious.

suffered, to forgive the one who inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. —MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

What is it that frightens you, Councillor Maximov? When you read about Karamzin or Karamzov or whatever his name is, when Karamzin's skull is cracked open like an egg, what is the truth: do you suffer with him, or do you secretly exult behind the arm that swings the axe? You don't answer? Let me tell you then: reading is being the arm and being the axe and being the skull; reading is giving yourself up, not holding yourself at a distance and jeering.

What is wrong with you " he whispered "that you care so much about me " Blay's sad smile added about a million years to his age lining his face with the kind of knowledge that came only after life kicked you in the nuts a number of times. "What is wrong with you that you can't see why I would

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.

God became man that dehumanized men might become true men. We become true men in the community of the incarnate, the suffering and loving, the human God.

God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.

In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself. ~ Theology of Play, p.33

In the raising and exaltation of Christ, God has chosen the one whom the moral and political powers of this world rejected – the poor, humiliated, suffering and forsaken Christ. God identified himself with him and made him Lord of the new world ….. The God who creates justice for those who suffer violence, the God who exalts the humiliated and executed Christ – that is the God of hope for the new world of righteousness and justice and peace.

What is there left for me after my purgatory of solitude?...I welcome death as a version of life in which I will not be myself. There is a fallacy here which I ought to see but will not. For when I wake on the ocean floor it will be the same old voice that drones out of me...

Baz? insanlar haks?z yere ac? çektiÄŸinde,' derdim kendi kendime, 'ac?lar?na tan?k olanlar?n kaderi bunun utanc?n? hissetmektir.' Ama bu düÅŸüncenin verdiÄŸi sahte avuntu beni rahatlatam?yordu. -Barbarlar? Beklerken

It is all too common in many churches around the world for believers to have absorbed the view that they must accept all calamities as the will of God, and many think that they must suffer in silence or even affirm God's role in the calamities. But this stance of absolute submission to the divine, exemplified by Abraham in Genesis 22, is not typical of biblical faith.

According to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, when you're happy everything in life is bearable and grief and stress are just passing emotions. Happiness is not something that you feel after something good happens. It is a state of living that is present whether good things are happening or not, whether you're suffering or not.

You need someone who you can count on to give you this support during your own down times. You need someone who you always know will be there for you to provide you with the encouragement and affirmation you need during the time you are suffering and to celebrate with you when you triumph.

Happiness is not something that you feel when good things happen in your life. It is not something you feel when people say good things about you. It is not something you feel when you win an award. It is a state of living – present in grief or celebration, success or failure, stress or relaxation, suffering or pleasure.

Inner strength comes from previous suffering. It sounds like an incongruous statement but the reality is this; if you suffer now and survive it, it makes you better able to deal with suffering in the future.

those who love suffer when who they love suffers.