I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.
When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
It’s not enough to be compassionate. You must act.
According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.
Sometimes you’ve got to go through hell to get to heaven.
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don’t realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.