To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
When you’re older you’ll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It’s better to be cold and young than to love. It’s happened to me before but never like this – so accidental – just when everything was going well.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
No victory without suffering.
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
This is God’s universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.