Quotes About Pain

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.

You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.

Hope hurt more than the cold.

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

Torture is not torture when there's any hope of relief.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it's capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

There are some pains that run too deep for anything to absolve them. The best we can do is pick up the pieces and hope for the strength we need to keep going.

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.