Our Suffering Quotes
70 Our Suffering quotes by 63 unique authors
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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
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Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
— Tara Brach
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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
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Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
— Stephen Levine
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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
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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
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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
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We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.
— Alistair Begg
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Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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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…
— François Lelord
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It…
— Ajahn Chah
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We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.
— Jack Kornfield
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Our Suffering Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 70 Our Suffering Quotes, led by these top contributors: