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Suffering Quotes by Oswald Chambers
- Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
- We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the…
- We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right…
- If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of…
- We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the…
- 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.
- Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
- No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
- When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are…
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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