Suffering Quotes
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Though death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.
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Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.
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I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
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Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?
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Attachment leads to suffering.
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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
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The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
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Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.
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There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.
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One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.
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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
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Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
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As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.
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It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
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The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.
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The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.
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The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.
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Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
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It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
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Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
