“Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that might have been less… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression,… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“This worldly life is an ocean of unhappiness. It is just beyond comprehension how people have found happiness in it. Just as… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you the truth about the world to which you so desperately want to return. It is a place of… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
The face of destiny or luck or God that gives us war also gives other kinds of pain: the loss of health… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy,… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“I have found the reason why people suffer. It's in their ego. It's in themselves. It's who they are. They don't deserve… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
“But God beckons from our brokenness, breaks in through the back door, invites us to encounter him in our insecurities, sits in… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“I have to cry out here that language is all we have for the delicacy and truth of telling, that words are… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history,… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“The God who is with us is the God who forsakes us (Mark 15:34).[...] Before God and with him we live without… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Global Family Day provides a way in which every man, woman, and child in the United States can help to reduce suffering… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
“So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry,… — Osho Copy Share Image
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
“She was left to beg for mercy only to burn in torment again the next day. She was a weed struggling through… — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be.… — John Green Copy Share Image
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
“From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his wife to a hospital… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
![“[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean by means of the sacred water and the invocation of…” quote by Irenaeus of Lyons](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9eb/irenaeus-of-lyons-18423_babe_naaman-dipped-himself-it-says-seven-time_627335.jpg)
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![“The God who is with us is the God who forsakes us (Mark 15:34).[...] Before God and with him we live without God. God allows himself to be edged out of the world and onto the cross. God is weak and powerless in the world, and that is exactly the way, the only way, in which he can be with us and…” quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/eec/dietrich-bonhoeffer-303_god_the-god-who-is-with-us-is-the-god-who-fo_710371.jpg)
