Quotes about Suffering

Hell is not just a place of torment; additionally it's a place of separation from God.

Hell ultimately is separation from God—not only separation from all that is good but also integration with all that is evil.

Paul's suffering was neither corrective nor instructive. It was simply permitted by God so that the gospel might spread to others.

Everybody has unhappiness.

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered . . . Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.