Edmund Clowney Quotes
Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.
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Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.
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This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
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I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.
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We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
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Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
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There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.
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Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
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In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of today are just a flick of a switch away. In our homes, on the train, in our coffee shops, we see it, we feel it, we know about it. All of us. All of the time. Human suffering is visible, constantly.
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Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
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It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.
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Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
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When do you do things for the love of it? Always. If you're not feeling that, go do something else. Life is too short.
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The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.
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Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer.
