Suffering Quotes - Page 34

• The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

  Laurel Lea

  Way, Find Me, Surviving

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• Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.

  Joseph Girzone

  Pain, Dark, Giving

  Joseph F. Girzone (1997). “Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land”, Arrowood Press

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• There is no love without suffering.

  Arielle Dombasle

  No Love

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

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• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  Iris DeMent

  Want, Worthwhile, Has Beens

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Heaven, Sake

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• We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

  Seneca the Younger

  Errors, Long, Languish

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 871-82, Of Benefits, Book V, Chapter XXV, Epigram 67, 1922.

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• He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Doctrine, Knaves

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.199

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• In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

  Al-Ghazali

  Sorrow, Affliction, Want

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• Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

  Thomas Dubay

  Reality, People, Boredom

  Thomas Dubay (2002). “Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within”, p.77, Ignatius Press

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• I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize what this suffering is? I am the suffering. Whatever is manifested, I am the functioning. Whatever is perceptible I am the perceiving of it. Whatever is done I am the doing of it; I am the doer of it, and, understand this, I am also that which is done. In fact, I am the total functioning.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Done, Doers, Facts

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• There will be no more danger, pollution or destruction, none of these things that we suffer from so much today. Everything will be heavenly, beautiful and natural, the way it was when God first created the earth.

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Earth, Today

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• Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.

  Dan John

  Workout, Thinking, Long

  "Questions and Answers About Lifting. How do I prevent overtraining?". danjohn.net.

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• In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Order, Soul, Saint

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• Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grief, Grieving, Long

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• It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Strong, Struggle, Order

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• No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.

  Tobsha Learner

  Strong, Aunt, Feminist

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• Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Angel, Tears, Golden

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• The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Crush, Weight, Crosses

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• There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.

  David Wolpe

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

  Bodhidharma

  Peace, Doe, Body

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, North Point Press

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• Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Past, Dysfunction

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• In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Powerful, Passion, Medicine

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• Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows how to govern everything concerning us. Nothing is impossible for Him, but everything is subject to His will. We must also realize that everything He does is for our benefit and we must accept it with thankfulness...as from a benefactor and a good lord even if is troublesome. For everything is done with right judgment, and God, Who is merciful, does not overlook even the smallest sadness that we suffer.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Sadness, Compassion, Words Of Wisdom

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• The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Dark, Shining

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• Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Gratitude, Sacrifice

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