Quotes about Suffering

Thus far did I come laden with my sin; Nor could aught ease the grief that I was in Till I came hither: What a place is This! Must here be the beginning of my bliss? Must here the burden fall from off my back? Must here the strings that bound it to me crack? Blest Cross! blest Sepulchre! blest rather be The Man that was put to shame for me

And so he explained that you must be justified by Him, by trusting in what He accomplished when He suffered by hanging on the tree. (But to him that does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, the faith is counted as righteousness. — Rom. 4:5)

The bitter must come before the sweet, and that also will make the sweet the sweeter.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. —DON MARQUIS

Leaders gain credibility when they suffer with those they lead.

A victim is a person who suffers a loss because of the actions of others.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.