Abandonment Quote by Arthur Middleton

“We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one…

— Shūsaku Endō

“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

The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires…

— Robert Sheaffer

“I have also learnt sympathy with suffering. To me, suffering seems now a sacramental thing, that makes those whom it touches holy.”

— Oscar Wilde

“To be wounded by the suffering of others is a gift of the Holy Spirit.”

— Gregory Baum

It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this…

— Mirra Alfassa

“Nowhere has God promised anyone, even His children, immunity from sorrow, suffering, and pain. This world is a “vale of tears,” and disappointment and…

— Billy Graham

The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this…

— Mother Angelica

“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought that in…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“In the midst of our pain-filled conversation, I recognized that we were sitting in the sacred, the holy. We had brushed against the eternal,…

— Kate McCord

“It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god's presence. At such times love…

— Jack London

“What I was learning in the church was in sharp contrast to the theology of self-sacrificing love I wrestled with. It wasn’t the willingness…

— Rebecca Ann Parker