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Suffering Quotes by Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
- I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
- Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
- Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like…
- The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
- Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with…
- Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
- We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
- All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
- Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before…
- God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless…
- They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. .…
- Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones,…
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
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus