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“The situation which brought about your pain was simply the form in which you came in touch with the human condition of suffering.”

Book:The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

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“And to split hairs, to claim that there is no comparison, that Treblinka was so to speak a metaphysical enterprise dedicated to nothing but death and annihilation while the meat industry is ultimately devoted to life (once its vicitms are dead, after all, it does not burn them to ash or bury them but on the contrary cuts them up and refrigerates and packs them so that they can be consumed in the comfort of our homes) is as little consolation to those victims as it would have been - pardon the tastelesness of the following - to ask the dead of Treblinka to excuse their killers because their body fat was needed to make soap and their hair to stuff mattresses with.”

Suffering Treblinka Animal Holocaust

Book:The Lives of Animals

Source: The Lives of Animals

“The layman has few certainties, but the first is this: it is acceptable to suffer (or to cause suffering) only if doing so prevents greater suffering.”

Suffering Certainty

Book:The Complete Works of Primo Levi

Source: The Complete Works of Primo Levi

“There is a region in the experience of pain where the certainty of alleviation often permits superhuman endurance.”

Pain Suffering Perseverance Endurance Atlas The End Of The Tunnel

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“Suffering has been my most faithful teacher.”

Suffering Faith In God Joy Quotes Sorrow Quotes Teachers And Learners Hardship Quotes Tekoa Manning

Book:Jumping for Joy in the Midst of Sorrow: A Devotional to Awaken Joy During Times of Great Trials

Source: Jumping for Joy in the Midst of Sorrow: A Devotional to Awaken Joy During Times of Great Trials

“Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope.”

Death Suffering Jesus Loss Grief Cross Crucifix Turn My Mourning Into Dancing

Author:Henri Nouwen

“When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.”

Care Suffering Empathy Help Giving Help

Book:Voice of Reason

Source: Voice of Reason

“People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...”

Children Suffering Parenting Kids Funny

Book:The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.”

Suffering

Book:Letters and Papers from Prison

Source: Letters and Papers from Prison

“I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own interests. Mooing about how to refinance the slaughterhouse. Putting skylights in the killing pen and pretending the bolt in the brain was a pathway to a better field. I paid my bill. Save your fucking pennies for a gun and a history book, I thought.”

Suffering Grief History Misery

Book:Zazen

Source: Zazen

“Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.”

Suffering Sovereignty Of God

Author:James Stewart

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