Quotes about Suffering
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
- Jurgen Moltmann
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
- Jurgen Moltmann
There is not other relation to God save that which appears upon the road along which Job travelled.
- Karl Barth
Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.
- Karl Barth
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
- James Allen
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
- James Allen
I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.
- Jim Elliot
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
- John Bunyan
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
- John Donne
God is a dark night to man in this life.
- John of the Cross
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
- Livy
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
- Victor Hugo