Our Suffering Quotes

70 Our Suffering quotes by 63 unique authors

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world. — Oswald Chambers
Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom. — Tara Brach
Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It… — Geneen Roth
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been. — Stephen Levine
The Gospel gives our suffering personal and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others, and finally, by connecting us to the… — Richard Rohr
Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a reason to continue.… — Sarah Winman
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves… — Stephen Levine
We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God. — Alistair Begg
Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who moves us, and… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
Donâ€™t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, donâ€™t rise or fall with them. Whatâ€™s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It… — Ajahn Chah
We can easily become loyal to our suffering â€¦ but it's not the end of the path. — Jack Kornfield
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not… — Mother Teresa
When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When… — Nhat Hanh
Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In… — Judy Tatelbaum
Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a… — Neil Abramson
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the… — Sam Harris
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss… — Henri Nouwen
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our… — Ben Okri

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