Suffering Quotes
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Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.
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On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.
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I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.
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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
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Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.
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They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady.
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Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.
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If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.
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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
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I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.
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God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.
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Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.
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When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again
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We were suffering a standard gray London drizzle, the sort that makes it clear that it can keep it up all day if needs be.
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Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
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Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.
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For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.
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The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.
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I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
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As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?
