There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences;… — John Muir Copy Share Image
During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Evil is the most difficult problem in the world. It is also the strongest objection to God’s existence. If God does exist,… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I see depression as an exponentially developed version of a human condition. Meaning I always think in the end it's humanizing. People… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair Will you still care? Will you be there? In my trials and my tribulations… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I told her [...] that I would bow down before her suffering with compassion, that she could control her life, that I… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
Pierre was an extraordinary teacher - he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Our suffering has a purpose-it helps us toward the end of our faith, which is the salvation of our souls. Suffering is… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“The Non-Corporeal Soul increases tolerance and acceptance of the pain sensation, which paradoxically automatically reduces pain’s noxiousness and intolerableness. The more room… — Ted Kaptchuk Copy Share Image
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“What would happen if a man's face could adequately express his suffering, if his entire inner agony would be objectified in his… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“The crucified God takes believers on a journey into earth, into its pain and suffering, and finds in that journey not the… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“When I'm triggered, I think, "This will last forever" or "What if this lasts forever?" I get thoughts about how I should… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them. I believe He wants… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“Oxford It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Childhood trauma and sufferings does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while… — Peter R Breggin Copy Share Image
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