Quotes about Suffering

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

Everything doesn't have to feel good to be God