Suffering Quotes - Page 27

• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  Vance Havner

  Kings, Heart, Dust

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.63, Solid Christian Books

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• If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Flesh

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• The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Evil

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• 'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears his distress. The end, as St. Paul says, is everlasting life (cf. Rom. 6:22). 'And this is eternal life, that they might know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent' (Jn. 17:3).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• ...the Lord said as He drew near His passion, 'Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself; and He will glorify Him at once' (Jn. 13:31-32). From This it is clear that divine gifts follow sufferings endured for the sake of virtue.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Passion, Son

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• Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Real, Teenager, Fighting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

  Matt Lucas

  Art, People, Creative

  "This much I know" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• 40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

  Tom Lantos

  Children, Growth, Korean

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• Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

  David Millar

  Hurt, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Thinking, Blood, Joy

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• An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

  Joe Wright

  Mean, Artist, Needs

  "Portrait of the artist: Joe Wright, film director". Interview with Sarah Phillips, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2011.

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• Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

  Rainn Wilson

  Believe, Race, Resistance

  "Rainn Wilson: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.

  Kayla Mueller

  Eye, Forever, Ifs

  "Kayla Mueller's parents appeal to ISIS: 'We are still hopeful'" by Ben Brumfield, Jomana Karadsheh, www.cnn.com. February 7, 2015.

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• This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering.

  Kayla Mueller

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• One of my best friends growing up was gay. ... It’s never been an issue for me. ... I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay, because it just meant more women for me! ‘I don’t know why you guys have a problem with this thing! I think it’d be great! I wish everyone was gay!’ ... That’s always the way I thought about it. ... I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn’t they?

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Growing Up, Gay, College

  "Short Episode: Donald Trump, Jr. Opens Up About Gay Marriage, Women’s Rights, and His Love of Hunting". "The Six Pack" with DJ Ben Harvey and Dave Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, People, Greater

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.

  Samuel Adams

  Army, Rights, People

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• If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Play, Laughing

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Suffering does not discriminate.

  Shania Twain

  Doe

  Shania Twain (2011). “From This Moment On”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.

  Camille Claudel

  House, Purpose, Causes

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• I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hurt, Tears, Want

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Adversity, Men

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• No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

  C. J. Mahaney

  Matter, Sin, This Life

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• Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

  Margaret Fuller

  Class, Mad, Criminals

  Margaret Fuller (1869). “Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems”, p.230

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• At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

  Louise Glück

  Doors, Ends

  "Wild Iris". Book by Louise Glück, therumpus.net. November 1, 1993.

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