To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good… — Solomon Schechter Copy Share Image
I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image