Quotes about Suffering

Simply put, meditation is the path to clarity, compassion, and a path of wisdom leading to the eradication of suffering.

It does provide a greater basket for tenderly holding and intimately knowing our suffering in any and all circumstances, and that, it turns out, is transformative, and can make all the difference between endless imprisonment in pain and suffering and freedom from suffering

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.