Quotes about Suffering

Grievances are a form of impatience. Griefs are a form of patience.

If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

Knowing the Lord was in their midst took the edge off the agony. Told You Twice

The human capacity for suffering was like that for joy. It could only have the greatest impact in small doses. After that, mind and body could no longer take it in.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.