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“Suffering, though, can be nothing more than a sad and sorry thing without the presence on the part of the sufferer of a graceful heart, an accepting and open heart, a heart that holds no malice toward the inflictors of his or suffering This is a difficult concept to understand, and it is even more difficult to internalize, but it has everything to do with the way of nonviolence. We are talking about love here....This is a broader, deeper, more all-encompassing love. It is a love that acepts and embraces the hateful and the hurtful. It is a love that recognizes the spark of the divine in each of us, even in those who would raise their hand against us, those we might call our enemy.”
“Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.”
“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
Source: Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
“Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn - that was the closest any person might come to heaven.”
Source: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
“Suffering whispers, shouts, and screams the story no one wants to remember: we are not in control, and we are all going to die.”
Source: This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
“Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.”
“Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.”
Source: Total Surrender
“Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.”
“Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering; there is some good or positive in this experience.”
Source: Existential Psychology East-west
“Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.”
“Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful”
Source: Conversations with Friends
“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.”
“Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.”
“Suffering, if it does not diminish love,
will transport us to the furthest shore.”
“Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.”
“Suffering, if you're a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it's not a bad thing, it is an essential thing in life... There are all different ways to suffer. One way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there's another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and there's all sorts of ways that people suffer and it's not just tangible, it's also intangible and we have to consider both.”
“Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.”
“Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.”
Source: The Right to Feel Bad
“Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.”
“Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.”
“Suffering... 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.”
“Sufferings are painful when we don’t want them. Once we decide to welcome sufferings as a means to achieve higher goals of life, they become a source of joy.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Sufferings destroys sin.”
“Sufferings forces to be real and being real forces suffering”
“Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.”
“Sufferings purifiers the soul.”
“Sufferings softens the heart.”
“Sufferings test strength of endurance.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.”
“Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.”
Source: Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings
“Suffice it to say, the ecclesia, the community of peace, imagined on the Galilean seashore had changed. Like a pebble tossed in a pond with ever expanding ripples, the emergence of Christianity in the urban centers of the Roman Empire forced the Church to adopt new forms and structures for mission and ministry. Jesus’s movement became a thriving principality. At the close of the third century, an organized Church had replaced a disorganized but single-minded community on a mission of peace.”
Source: Vocatio: Imaging a Visible Church
“Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.”
Source: Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana
“Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.”
“Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.”
“Suffice to say that the TG2, Germ pre and EQ, and TG1 are there anytime I track drums, TG2 for guitars and the LTD-1 is there whenever I do vocals!”
“Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).”
Source: Making Movies
“Suffice to say that theirs had been an unusual love, with such a degree of commingling of identities that when Chris died, erica felt she had lost herself; even now she did not know if she could be found p.104”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she earned her living selling dreams. One simply made a selection, read it in solitude, and let it percolate till sleep. People swore they fell directly into her renderings, and one even asked if the dream writer could write a dream of dreaming forever. The dream writer could not do this, but she hired dream apprentices to expand the reach of her dreams and she wrote dreams for herself in which she would sit at a desk, pen in hand, and write even more dreams. This nearly doubled her output.”
Source: The Little Queen
“Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.”
“Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.”
“Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.”
Source: Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore
“Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.”
“Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.”
“Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.”
“Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.”
“Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.”
“Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.”
“Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place.”
Source: The Complete Works: To the reverende divines