Write hard and clear about what hurts.
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
It’s pain that changes our lives.
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.
A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.
Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.
If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.