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Suffering Quotes by Teresa of Avila
- Pain is never permanent.
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against…
- Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
- Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is…
- If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
- Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to…
- Truth suffers, but never dies.
- Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love…
- Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
- Patience obtains everything.
- Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
- One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time…
- There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
- Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus…
- In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
- We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls,…
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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