6 Quotes by K.J. Ramsey

All pain triggers a reminder, deeper than thought, buzzing through blood and bone, that we are fragile and finite.

When pain of any kind makes us feel less ourselves and less capable of engaging in relationships, we experience it as suffering.

Often the pain that makes us feel most stuck is not our suffering; it is experiencing distress in the presence of people who expect us to get better faster than we can.

Living with long-term suffering in American culture feels like being off-key. Suffering quiets and slows, but our culture prefers a crescendo.

Suffering whispers, shouts, and screams the story no one wants to remember: we are not in control, and we are all going to die.

Something unspoken can't be known. It becomes a private asphyxiation, a see stuck in the throat of an individual body staining for the oxygen of God's love.