Our Sufferings Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who…
— Brother Lawrence
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Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness
— Lisa Bonet
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God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us…
— Jerry Bridges
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As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When…
— Jack Kornfield
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In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.
— Gerald Massey
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I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.
— Jojo Moyes
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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let…
— Therese of Lisieux
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If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our…
— Maximus the Confessor
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God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
— Max Lucado
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Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Gosh, what a gripping story. You must have been simply terrified. Meanwhile we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened there, Harry? Oh…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.
— John Adams
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We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we…
— Jon Stewart
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Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at…
— Paulo Coelho
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Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many…
— Anton Chekhov
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Air, food, shelter, clothing and water are the means of life. Yet, next to the love of God and others, it is art that we…
— John Lars Zwerenz
Who Wrote These Our Sufferings Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Our Sufferings Quotes as follows: