Quotes about Suffering
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
- Samuel Rutherford
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?
- Thomas a Kempis
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
- St. Augustine
But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive, overturns all patience.
- John Milton
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
- Samuel Johnson
Patience means self-suffering.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.
- Thomas a Kempis
The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.
- George Washington
Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.
- Joyce Meyer
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
- Jimmy Carter
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.
- Thomas Watson