Criticism Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their…

— Edmund Spenser

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

— Ramana Maharshi

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

— Charles Spurgeon

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that…

— Blaise Pascal

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

— Bernard Kouchner

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be…

— Dorothy Day

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

— William Faulkner

Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for…

— John of Kronstadt

Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near…

— Ann Hasseltine Judson

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

— Sophocles

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

— William Blake