Compelling Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

“In simple terms, according to the Christian tradition, love is a metaphysical necessity for created beings since it is only through love that such…

— Matt Baglio

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

— May Sarton

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

— Hans Kung

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

— Gregory David Roberts

Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.

— Gianna Beretta Molla

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Love without suffering does not exist

— Saint Bernadette

When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are…

— Frederick Buechner

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is…

— Oscar Wilde

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

— John Vianney