Best blessing & suffering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles

“posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.”

Able Suffering Blessing Hardship Ancestor Posterity Reap

Author:Abigail Adams

“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.”

“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.”

Doe Reason Joy Lying Suffering Evil Blessing Despair Tired Good Things Refuse Cures Bless Pessimism Decline Weary

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.”

Ifs Knows Men Humans Wells Made Ends Whole Happens Would Be Joy Suffering Evil Know How Conditions Mankind Ignorance Blessing Illusion Ignorant Bliss Agony Human Happiness

Author:Anatole France

“If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.”

Ifs Mean Suffering Blessing Greatest Blessings

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.”

Thinking Real Artist Suffering Enjoy Creativity Strange Blessing Solitude Safe Conscious Curse Isolation Nurture Being Alone Singularity Real Artists

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.”

Humans Important Used Motivation Suffering Evil Personality Blessing Tragedy Appreciation Generator

Book:Motivation and Personality

Source: Motivation and Personality

“Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you....If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.”

Ifs Inspirational Pain Suffering Hurt Situation Blessing Forgiveness Curse Bless Fades Sincerely Troublesome

Author:Emmet Fox

“A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.”

Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters

“Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.”