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Suffering Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer…
- There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there…
- We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy…
- It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my…
- I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not…
- Your soul suffers if you live superficially.
- You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most…
- Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
- One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it…
- Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the…
- We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does…
- He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not.…
More Suffering Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila