Believe Quote by Alan Brennert

I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us.…

— Elisabeth Elliot

All that happens in our lives which we find painful, physically or emotionally, is for a purpose. Unfortunately, from our very limited perspective it…

— Robert S. Jepson, Jr

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more…

— John Lennon

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life;…

— Anatole France

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be…

— Anonymous

“During the worst of it, onlookers who have learned my story often comment to me that, “All the hardships you suffered were part of…

— L.M. Browning

For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mere fragmentary reflexion,…

— Marcel Proust

“Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.”

— Bryant McGill

“Pain exists only in the mind. Whether an event is real or not doesn’t matter, only that the mind believes it is. Suffering can…

— Elizabeth Herrera

“We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain," said Matthew. "It comes when it comes, and we try to…

— Cassandra Clare