Quotes about Suffering
Without the interior light of grace I would have undoubtedly pitied myself, but in the midst of darkness I found myself divinely illumined.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
My only consolation lies in not having any here below.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Can a victim of love find anything her Spouse sends terrible?
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Above all, the divine love is salvific: It seeks the lost, suffers with the afflicted, and redeems the fallen.
- Stanley Grenz
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
- Pope John Paul II
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
- Mother Teresa
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
- GK Chesterton
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
- Pema Chodron
The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
- DA Carson
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
- John Milton
Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?
- Khalil Gibran
The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
- Pema Chodron