The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime I'm… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“Whatever is form is impermanent. And whatever is impermanent is suffering. And whatever is suffering is devoid of a self, devoid of… — Red Pine Copy Share Image
This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“We use the word cross in our hymns, in our piety, in our prayers, and in our pastoral language. But we use… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In the wake of the pain, economic loss, and unprecedented global suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I am greatly saddened that… — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great… — Hadewijch Copy Share Image
Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“All human beings face the same fundamental problems of loving and of suffering, of striving toward human aspirations for themselves and their… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“If the evil-doing of men moves you to indignation and overwhelming distress, even to a desire for vengeance on the evil-doers, shun… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“EPICURUS WROTE, “Empty is that philosopher’s argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Lord Jesus; I appreciate very much your sufferings for me and for the rest of humanity. I thank you for saving me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I think doctors are really suffering now. They're suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
“Today, Aaron decided, he would begin to grieve in earnest. He would walk the lonely beach, mocked by gulls, uncaring, his every… — Joseph Caldwell Copy Share Image
Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words.… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Last and crowning torture of all the tortures of that awful place is the eternity of hell. Eternity! O, dread and dire… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There are differences between us. But it doesn't make sense to emphasize that, because my future and yours is connected with everyone… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When you were a kid and the circus came to town it was awesome to see these little creatures, but these things… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
