Quotes about Suffering

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.

In the final analysis, the only available options are either to reject the cross and with it the core of the Christian faith or to take up one's cross, follow the Crucified-and be scandalized ever anew by the challenge.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.

In this world, few people look with the eyes of compassion, and so we are cruel and merciless toward each other. The weak are always oppressed by the strong.