Best Sufferings Thoughts
292 Sufferings quotes by 228 unique authors
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I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
— Kenzaburo Oe
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It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as…
— Thomas Sydenham
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If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our…
— Maximus the Confessor
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The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of…
— Maximus the Confessor
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...the Lord said as He drew near His passion, 'Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is…
— Maximus the Confessor
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... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
— Flannery O'Connor
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In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
— Margaret Atwood
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It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to…
— John Henry Newman
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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the…
— James Joyce
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
— John Dryden
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Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
— Livy
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Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the…
— Saint Basil
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The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings
— Theodore Roosevelt
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God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
— Max Lucado
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The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
— Alice Miller
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Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought…
— Jack Kornfield
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
— Nhat Hanh
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature,…
— Franz Kafka
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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