Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

We need to be kinder with one another, more gentle and forgiving. We need to be slower to anger and more prompt to help. We… — Howard W. Hunter
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just… — Dan Millman
To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips.… — Unknown Author
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. — Euripides
Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards. — Jessica Biel
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
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense. — Ken Keyes Jr.
If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual… — Paramahansa Yogananda
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart,… — George Whitefield
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. — Henry George
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born. — John Florio
Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity. — Mother Teresa
Better to suffer than to die. — Jean de La Fontaine
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it. — Josh Billings
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by. — George Meredith
There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never… — Rajneesh
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no… — Erich Fromm
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
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… — Oswald Chambers

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