Quotes about Suffering

Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways!

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

Grace flows through wounds.