Prayer Quote by George Eliot

“Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“While religions could not liberate humans from the agony of the human condition…they did provide an invaluable way to withdraw from the brink of…

— Jeremy Griffith

“Pure religion and undefiled, before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself…

— John Bunyan

“The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine…

— R.C. Sproul

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he…

— Joseph Addison

“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are many religions seeking to bring comfort and happiness to humanity, just as there are many treatments for a particular disease. All religions…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“To have suffered so much in a certain direction that the suffering is finished, and only its particular wisdom remains, enables one, wherever that…

— James Allen

“Nowhere has God promised anyone, even His children, immunity from sorrow, suffering, and pain. This world is a “vale of tears,” and disappointment and…

— Billy Graham

“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of…

— Anonymous

“The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who…

— Karl Marx

“Oh, God, thou art the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full of misery…

— Austin Osman, Spare