I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers.… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“The world can understand well enough the process of perishing for want of food: perhaps few persons can enter into or follow… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“Miserable humanity was clamouring from the depths of its abyss of suffering, and the clamour swept along, sending a shudder down every… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I knew this guy he'd been in a motorcycle accident and it really ruined him and he was a linesman working on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good… — Alan Heathcock Copy Share Image
I know a lot of other actors that don't like to look at other references to their characters and things. But I… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
“In my lifelong study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they might try, they have found no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We're the unmended, the untended, cold soldiers of the shoe. We're the neglected, the never resurrected, agonies of the few. We're the… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“The word suffer in its original sense means “to allow,” such as in one of Shakespeare’s dramas when a courtier says, “I… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate thing for the Christian to be melancholy. If there is any man in the world that has a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. .… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flame that grow from my body. Beating my… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Suffering through his classes, the young Igor steeped himself in angst. He would later describe his childhood as 'a period of waiting… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“In her insightful Of Woman Born (1976), Adrienne Rich said it very eloquently: “My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“Some people think life is all about suffering, and suffering means living life. So many people live their lives accepting suffering as… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
My reporting in Africa wouldn't be political per se, but it's certainly the point of my reporting - and of a lot… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth… — Theodosia Garrison Copy Share Image
“A valley full of genuine suffering, and of joys that often turn out to be false, and so incredibly tumultuous that it… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“In the ferment of our civil societies, from which the guardian angels seem to depart, we see many every moment sliding at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image