Quotes about Suffering
Christian doctrine is what the church believes, teaches, and confesses as it prays and suffers, serves and obeys, celebrates and awaits the coming of the kingdom of God. —Jaroslav Pelikan
- Kevin Vanhoozer
There really is no justice in a broken life!
- Kris Vallotton
C. S. Lewis put it, "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
- Kristen Heitzmann
A psycho-neurosis must be understood as the suffering of a human being who has not yet discovered what life means for him
- Carl Jung
The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.
- Carolyn Custis James
Remember Luke, the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. Distances are irrelevant to injustice. If not stopped soon enough, evil will eventually reaches out to engulf all men, whether they have opposed it or ignored it.
- George Lucas
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
- Aesop
It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
- Anonymous
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
- CS Lewis
There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
- Charles Spurgeon