Quotes About Suffering

Comprendió claramente que el castigo de aquellos atormentados espíritus consistía en una ansia infinita de aliviar las desgracias humanas, careciendo de poder para ello.

It is the cry of the separate self, 'What about me?' As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn't matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.

Les drames les plus atroces résistent mal aux gestes familiers de la vie quotidienne.

He allows brokenness in our lives in order to bring about a blessing.

Paul declared in Philippians 3:8: "I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ" (NASB).

consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" (James 1:2-4). God's

Friend, all of God's children go through crises, and it's during times of adversity that His peace is most clearly manifested. So give thanks for these times—even though they're painful—because they'll serve to bring you closer to Him.

Cuando Job estaba sumido en el desastre su mujer se burló de él, diciendo: «¿Aún retienes tu integridad? Maldice a Dios, y muérete» (Job 2.9). Es evidente que Satanás estaba obrando para tratar de distorsionar la perspectiva que Job tenía de Dios.

Some days the burdens may seem so heavy and the weariness so profound that you may wonder if God has forsaken you. Why would He allow you to experience such deep adversity? Yet do not despair. He has a clear purpose for your suffering: so you will know the Savior better and reflect His character.

No estamos todos de acuerdo en que hemos aprendido algunas cosas en la vida que ahora desearíamos nunca haber conocido? Hemos sufrido cosas que desearíamos no haber experimentado nunca. Allí está la sutileza. Cuando no escuchamos a Dios oímos otras voces cuya apelación es la de la independencia y el orgullo, y cuyo sistema de valores es la antítesis del de Dios.

There is an infinite amount of suffering in the world. There is a distinctly finite amount of resources to deal with it. How do we decide who gets what? The dilemmas are agonizing. One man's treatment is another man's denial of treatment. To save X is to condemn Y.

First, they contend that compassion makes euthanasia morally mandatory. We wouldn't let our dog continue to scream for years with uncontrolled pain: we'd take it to the vet to be put down. Why should we deny to humans what basic decency makes us do to our dogs? And second, they emphasize autonomy. Our lives are our own, they say. We can decide what to do with them. If we choose to end them, that's our business.

for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're only left with your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not.

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

The Armenians are a people who possess excellent hearts, and whose manners are mild and civil. They are deep politicians, and acquire great riches by commerce." Nothing had changed in two hundred years, except that the Armenians had endured intolerable suffering and lost a large part of their homeland, and their people, in Turkey.

The growth of Sentiment is the increase of suffering; man is never entirely miserable until he finds out how wronged he is and fancies that he sees far ahead a possible freedom.

He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

Life: the insomnia of death.

Life is short and full of blisters.

Have faith in poets, for they have not been ashamed to tell you that men suffer. They have not been afraid to look life in the face: and often the encounter is more comforting than you had expected.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

There is one inescapable fact: by the time the SOS was sent, the Morro Castle was beyond help.