They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . . The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . . with the eternal sufferings of the lost.
A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.
When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!
Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.
Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.
Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.
We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.
If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.
I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.
Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.