Peter Kreeft Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Loneliness, Love You

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.70, Ignatius Press

• A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mind, Suffering, Scandal

• Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Kindness, Suffering

• True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.

  Peter Kreeft

  Love, Fall, Opposites

• How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, Suffering, Matter

• Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

  Peter Kreeft

  Blessed, Suffering, Christ

• Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

  Peter Kreeft

  Suffering, Christ, Values

• Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Broken, Suffering, Tears

• The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Suffering, Worst

• The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

  Peter Kreeft

  Suffering, Solutions

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