How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened,… — Katherine Arden 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
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
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
The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The boy knelt, shoulders bowed, on the sand in the grey of morning, moaning softly, fearfully. Glowing tendrils of energy streamed across… — J. Valor Copy Share Image
For years I bore the crippling weight of anger, bitterness and resentment toward those who caused my suffering. Yet as I look… — Phan Thi Kim Phuc Copy Share Image
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
You've walked through many tornadoes, and out of anguish gave up, looking up to the sun and I know its tough, I… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us,… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
You don't want the United States to become South America, where you have a super collection of rich people at the tippy-top… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman 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
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
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
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
You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the… — Albert Schweitzer 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
“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
“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
“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
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
'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
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
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
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
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 believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed…” quote by Jane Goodall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/jane-goodall-950_action_i-believe-that-the-tragedy-like-terror-a_2847091.jpg)
