Quotes about Suffering

Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wonder that the Son of Man visited this dark, sinful, wretched earth by becoming Man - Christ's unity with the sinful was due to His love! Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

Hunger is not just an economic problem. It is a moral and spiritual problem.

Evil is revealed when there is seen what it does to one who is loved.

The greatest poverty of all—the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God.

Our Lord never spoke of His Heavenly, or Risen Glory without bringing in the ignominy of the Cross.

Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of love; Magdalen was there too, like a broken flower, a wounded thing. But foremost among all-God pity her!-was His own mother. Mary, Magdalen, John; innocence, penitence, and priesthood; the three types of souls forever to be found beneath the Cross of Christ.

We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.

An unsuffering Christ Who did not freely pay the debt of human guilt would be reduced to the level of an ethical guide;

The soul that hated truth (to speak in inadequate human terms) would suffer more in heaven than in hell; analogically speaking, the want of the Spirit of Christ makes us shrink from His companionship.

If we start (as we must) at the bottom of the ladder, having compassion on all men, nothing that happens to others is foreign to us. Their grief is our grief, their poverty our poverty.

The crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble