Quotes about Suffering
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.
- Rob Bell
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
- Tullian Tchividjian
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
- Pablo Picasso
The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.
- NT Wright
I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
- Mother Teresa
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
- Albert Camus
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
- Albert Schweitzer
Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
- CS Lewis
You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
- Margaret Atwood
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
- Graham Greene