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Suffering Quotes by John of the Cross
- Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
- The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
- Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God…
- Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything,…
- The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for…
- Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
- In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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- 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