“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
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
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
“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
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and… — Cirilo F. Bautista Copy Share Image
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures… — Sam Shoemaker Copy Share Image
Suffering is caused by desire. Desire is wanting something you don't have, wishing something were some way it isn't, or being otherwise… — Ritu Ghatourey 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
