Quotes about Suffering
Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, has suffered and paid for our sins and those of all the people we will ever meet. He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual.
- Henry B. Eyring
Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.
- Lauren Kate
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
- Thomas a Kempis
Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.
- Ellen White
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.
- Pope John Paul II
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
- Albert Camus
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
- St. Jerome
Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry
- James Allen
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
- John Donne
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky