S Quotes
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“Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.”
Source: The List of 7
“Suffering must serve to sanctify the soul.”
“Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Suffering needs to be persistent and uncomfortable to warn us of the threat from evil and motivate us to take action to eliminate it (11)”
Source: Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us
“Suffering Never Comes From A Joyful Heart. It Only Comes From The Space Of Suffering”.”
“Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.”
“Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.”
“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.”
Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality
“Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“Suffering often clarifies what really matters in life.”
“Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.”
Source: Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church
“Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.”
“Suffering or dissatisfaction is an inevitable feature of all human existence, and craving or desire is at the root of suffering.”
Source: Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth
“Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.”
“Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.”
“Suffering, pain, sorrow, humiliation, feelings of loneliness, are nothing but a kiss of Jesus.”
“Suffering passes but having suffered lasts.”
“Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God…”
“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”
“Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.”
“Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.”
“Suffering perfects the soul.”
“Suffering persists when we resist accepting the complementary polarities of emotions like grief and joy. Every conflict contains the seeds of its resolution. As the Hindu sage Patanjali stated in one of his Yoga Sutras, 'By experiencing the pairs of opposites, suffering ceases. When distress arises, ride opposing thoughts back into nondual awareness. By reversing instability into stability, from refusing into non-refusing, suffering is relinquished. Through disidentification, the pairs of opposites cease their noxious effect. By reversing the pairs of opposites stability and the release of suffering are quickly achieved.”
Source: Awaken To Love: Reclaiming Wholeness through Embodied Nonduality with Jungian Wisdom, Psychosynthesis & Internal Family Systems
“Suffering, poverty and privation are processes by which we are purified and move closer to God. But very few of us can accept them with a smile.”
“Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.”
“Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.”
Source: In Step With God: Understanding His Ways and Plans for Your Life
“Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.”
“Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.”
“Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.”
Source: Making Sense of Suffering
“Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.”
Source: Day: A Novel
“Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.”
“Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.”
Source: Radically Ordinary
“Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.”
“Suffering saints are living seed.”
“Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.”
“Suffering should lead a man to seek his spiritual sense of being.”
“Suffering should make a man submit to God.”
“Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man!"
(Address, 2011 Endometriosis Foundation of America Blossom Ball)”
“Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be understanding, show empathy, and don’t accuse her of being sensitive, delicate, or overly dramatic – this is a big opportunity for you guys to show that you care and to be a real man!”
“Suffering, simply put, is what happens when stress exceeds capacity and causes one to exist in a state of being they wish not to be.”
Source: Sufferless: The Science & Philosophy of Reducing Suffering
“Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.”
Source: Picture Perfect
“Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.”
Source: The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven
“Suffering softens the soul.”
“Suffering strips away the self. This sounds terribly painful, and it is. But the meaning and object of suffering isn't pain; it is to learn to give and receive love. God isn't a sadist who delights in using agony to teach us a lesson. But in the alchemy of redemption, God can take what is only sorrow and transform it into the very path by which we learn to love God and let ourselves be loved. This is the strange (and usually unwanted) way of abundant life - the dying necessary to bring resurrection.”
Source: Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
“Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go home
and base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes.”
Source: This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness
“suffering sweetens the reward”
Source: The Bone Magician
“Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.”
“Suffering that does not break us away from more of this world and break us into more of God is wasted suffering.”
Source: The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life
“Suffering, that's a Universal law of nature”
“Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.”