S Quotes
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“Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.”
“Suffering for the sake of Christ is not the end of the story; it is the beginning of glory.”
“Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.”
Source: Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition
“Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.”
“Suffering from a rare syndrome,
my grandmother always stated,
that - 'she could not rest'.”
Source: Outbloom: A collection of poetry
“Suffering from a wave and ray of love is incurable.”
“Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.”
“Suffering from feelings of inner emptiness, some meditation practitioners may misunderstand and likewise be attracted to the Buddhist notion of ‘no-self,’ and mistakenly seek doctrinal validation for their feelings of emptiness.”
Source: Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy
“Suffering gives us no special rights.”
“Suffering gives you hope.”
“Suffering had had an effect with which she was familiar. The refusal of self-pity and despair had turned it from lead to fire, burning up the subterfuges and dishonesties below the surface of the inherited veneer of manners and thought that most men and women think are their true selves, and the veneer with them.”
Source: The Scent of Water
“Suffering happens in the gap we hold between the expectations we have and reality. Flexing and finding the gifts in the gap resolves the pain.”
Source: Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety
“Suffering happens when we believe the solution is outside ourselves.”
“Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Suffering has a way of turning a person inward, toward where God resides (xvii)”
Source: Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us
“Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.”
“Suffering has become an essential part of me, and I’d sabotage any attempt to heal. I’d be fearful of losing my unhappy self. I’d miss it if I were released.”
Source: The Alien
“Suffering has been a great teacher, cultivating and culturing our conduct. It develops and refines sensibilities, teaches humility and in more than one way, prepares humans to be able to turn to God. It awakens the need for search and exploration and creates that necessity which is the mother of all inventions. Remove suffering as a causative factor in developing man's potential and the wheel of progress would turn back a hundred thousand times. Man may try his hand at altering the plan of things, but frustration would be all he will achieve. Thus, the question of apportioning blame for the existence of suffering upon the Creator should not arise. Suffering, to play its subtle creative role in the scheme of things, is indeed a blessing in disguise.”
Source: Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge and Truth
“Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.”
“Suffering has been my most faithful teacher.”
Source: Jumping for Joy in the Midst of Sorrow: A Devotional to Awaken Joy During Times of Great Trials
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
Source: Great Expectations
“Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from the taint of sin... Among the gentlest and sweetest souls are sometimes found those who suffer much. A person that accepts his lot, does his best, loving both God and man, is a success and will experience a joy in living.”
“Suffering has no higher purpose. Shit just happens. There is no God testing us. Those are just fairy tales we use to cope with adversity. Religion is a placebo.”
Source: Atheism Memes: 40 Reasons Why I'm An Atheist
“Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.”
“Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.”
“Suffering has the power to expose what you've been trusting in all along. If you lose your hope when your physical body fails, maybe your hope wasn't really in your Savior after all.”
“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.”
Source: The Luminaries
“Suffering holds within it a hidden,
transformative treasure,
an unrecognized gem.
Jesus demonstrates how to suffer
in how He walks from Gethsemane
to Golgotha.
Then, in the Word of the Cross,
He raises Suffering to a
Redemptive superpower.
Only if we give assent to uniting our
imperfect suffering to Jesus’
perfect offering can we open
to the superpower
Redemptive Suffering contains
and alter the eternal destiny
of those towards
whom we unleash love, by offering
our suffering for them.
Dr. Sue Ellen Nolan, MTS, Ed.D”
“Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”
Source: The garden of Epicurus
“Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity.”
Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
“Suffering; impossibility of being comfortable anywhere; oppression, irritations and remorse one after the next, everything under the sign "wretchedness of man," used by Pascal.”
Source: Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
“Suffering, in fact, can be helpful in many ways. It spurs your motivation and as many teachings point out, without suffering there would be no determination to be free from samsara. Sadness is an effective antidote to arrogance.”
Source: The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
“Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.”
“Suffering in moderation acts as a vaccine against ending one's own suffering.”
“Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.”
“Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“Suffering introduces a man to his soul.”
“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.”
“Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.”
“Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected to worry a tiger - even if a tiger can be said to worry about anything at all - and certainly cannot be expected to worry its genes.”
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.”
“Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.”
“Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.”
Source: The Bach Flower Remedies
“Suffering is a cutting edge political design.”
Source: Constructed To Rot: A Critical Reflection On Homelessness
“Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy”
“Suffering is a given, but so is joy.”
“Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.”
“Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.”