Quotes about Suffering

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Our brother Darl in a cage in Jackson where, his grimed hands lying light in the quiet interstices, looking out he foams.

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.

There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry Help!

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

God has predestined every single one of us for fruitfulness. (See John 15.) We need to be familiar with a place of divine intimacy in which we are so consumed by the Holy Spirit that we will nurture and protect the seed He places in us. We need to fearlessly step out and activate His promises. It is intimacy that gives us the grace and strength we need to push through suffering, pain, and inconvenience.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.