Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength… — Delbert L. Stapley
It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering. — H. W. L. Poonja
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street,… — Mother Teresa
I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it… — Peter of Alcantara
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. — Pio of Pietrelcina
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not… — Mother Teresa
In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in… — Therese of Lisieux
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious… — Therese of Lisieux
It is my weakness that gives me all my strength. — Therese of Lisieux
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it. — Therese of Lisieux
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized… — George H. Smith
[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon… — Irenaeus of Lyons
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven. — Samuel Rutherford
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Pity makes suffering contagious. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to… — Rabindranath Tagore
Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the… — Eda LeShan
Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything. — Bill Veeck
We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering. — Hanan Ashrawi
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier
To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as… — Baroness Orczy

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