Suffering Quotes
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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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God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
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They come to be? Why don’t they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been.
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Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
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When we live in our own privileged little bubble, it is convenient to pretend that all is well with the world, that everyone enjoys the same privileges that we do. We conveniently forget that there are others, sometimes our very own next-door neighbors, who suffer in ways that we do not.
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
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Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.
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Painful feeling is suffering in itself; pleasant feeling brings suffering through its transiency and its unsatisfying and unsatisfactory nature.
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There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.
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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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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.
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I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.
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When I look back to a recent painting, I can hardly bear th suffering in it.
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The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.
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What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are 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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You can't do God's work without suffering.
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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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The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
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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.
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Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer.
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Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.
