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Pain Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
- If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for…
- Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given…
- Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.
- If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
- God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
- Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.
- The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will…
- You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps…
- I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with…
- We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if…
- Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
- The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
- Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his…
- The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and…
- when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least…
- I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
- God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
- The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
- Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental…
- We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts…
- No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of…
- Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
- In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our…
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- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. — Lance Armstrong
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. — Marcus Aurelius
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila