3,815 Quotes About Suffering

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.

It is the cruelest torment imaginable, not only to endure all the wrong and its results that the rest of us deal with, but to do so while knowing how right you have made it to be. Jesus' suffering was, for Him, the most backward and wrong experience imaginable.

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.

Life is about discovering things worth dying for.

When you wake up in the morning and your first thoughts are heartache others are suffering, your genuine concern brings you sorrow. You’ve reach the point of clarity in life. There’s salvation knowing Jesus has his hands on your heart.

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.