“Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.” GivingSufferingFightingAsksLordTeachKnowingCostLaborRewardsWoundsToilHeedCounting The Cost Author:Ignatius of Loyola
“When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the Lord, ask him to forgive your sins, and protect you through the day, to preserve you from temptation and all evil, to guide your steps aright.” ChildrenTogetherSufferingEvilAsksPrayerSinLordStepsMorningWifeProtectForgivingGuidesTemptationGet UpPreservesBowsProtect You Author:Brigham Young
“The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are really asking is, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then can He not make me (the questioner) - who is just as much a part of a universe in which there is suffering as is any other part - be at the same time the exact same questioner, but one who is now part and parcel of a universe in which there is no suffering?' Which, reduced down, is the same thing as asking, 'Why can there not be, at the same time, X and the preclusion of X?'” IfsDoeSufferingUniverseAsksPowerfulAskingAbsurdParcelAsking Why Author:Emo Philips
“The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.” IfsShouldFirstsHeartLittlesPainSufferingDiesAsksSleepPleasureLibertyExcuseGoing To Sleep Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLongHelpingProblemCareEarthSufferingAsksWaitingReligiousTalkingDependsBlessingAngelRoundsDon't BelieveDon't CareFashionableTrendyHoveringTinkerbell Author:Nancy Pickard
“I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.” PeopleWayWantSufferingAsksConvincedAdministrationResolutionPalestinian Author:Ismail Haniyeh