Quotes about Suffering

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

I'm not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain.

There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?

The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.

If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.

Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.