I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they’d been born with some kind of special knowledge about being happy, that, through some cosmic accident, we never received. Thinking in this way, we make our own problems seem much bigger than they really are.
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.
The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.
Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
Pain is never permanent.
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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