Quotes about Suffering

The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be is equal to the pain you're willing to endure.

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Life is hard, but death is even harder.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death

Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.