God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.
We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world.
Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is a part of life in this world, part of a cycle. . . . Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while you're hearing the tale.
Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.
But I also want kids who suffer from bullying to know that you can be whoever you want to be in life, including a professional boxer. That anything is possible and that who you are or whom you love should not be an impediment to achieving anything in life.
Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your appliances work well, then when your washing machine breaks down you won't compound the problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the situation.
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
