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“All of life comes the way of pain. Birth, death, war. Even the food we eat cost someone a day’s toil. I suppose God gives us the greatest treasures to compensate for the suffering.”

Book:Rescuing Rose

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“Mom once said that suffering is the common thread every living creature shares. Some people think it’s love, but it’s not. Not everyone is guaranteed to love or be loved, after all. But from the tiniest insect to a 110-year-old human being – we’re all guaranteed to suffer throughout our lives. It’s the one experience that unites us – the one none of us can escape.”

Suffering

Book:Beautiful Shining People

Source: Beautiful Shining People

“That i should suffer, fine, but my brothers and sisters, no, this i cannot accept. Yet who am i to accept or refuse anything ?”

Suffering

Book:Je pars… mais je reviendrai

Source: Je pars… mais je reviendrai

“To admit your ignorance is freeing. To say, "I don't know" is to free yourself from having to come up with a bullshit answer.”

Inspirational Truth Freedom Knowledge Honesty Humility Ignorance Bullshit Freeing

Author:Eric Roxas

“My friend, if you are weak—worn out from work, worn down by criticism, weary of constant demands or disappointments—if you have come to the end of yourself, if you've been emptied of your delusions of strength, you're just at the right place to be filled with the goodness of God. You're finally fillable. You're fully dependent.”

Christian Suffering Faith Encouragement

Book:Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

Source: Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“All greek civilization is a search for bridges to relate human misery and divine perfection. Their art, which is incomparable, their poetry, their philosophy, the sciences which they invented (geometry, astronomy, mechanics, physics, biology) are nothing but bridges.”

Suffering Divinity

Book:Intimations of Christianity Among The Greeks

Source: Intimations of Christianity Among The Greeks

“Someone has said that suffering stretches the heart, so that after it heals, it can hold more love. But I felt as though my heart were stretched to the breaking point.”

Pain Suffering Grief

Book:North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

“I will have to sit with this thing that weighs on me like a stone. I will have to work to will each breath for as long as it takes, though it feel like eternity. In this waiting, there is beauty, if I am willing to hear it. In this waiting, there is witness. But it is hard. I am not in control.”

Pain Suffering Grief

Book:North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

Source: North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey

“If you don't suffer, you're not alive. If you're alive, you eat French fries. It's a good thing there are always French fries to ease the burden.”

Life Suffering Consultation

Book:All Dogs Are Blue

Source: All Dogs Are Blue

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