Quotes about Suffering
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
- Publilius Syrus
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
- Ignatius of Antioch
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
- Mother Teresa
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.
- Philip Yancey
You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.
- Joyce Meyer
When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.
- WA Criswell
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
- John Bunyan
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself
- CS Lewis
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle