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“True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.”

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“Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?”

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Author:Dana Gioia

“I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.”

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Author:James Balog

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“Pain is never permanent.”

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Author:Teresa of Avila

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.”

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Author:John of the Cross

“I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.”

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Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.”

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Book:Visit of Pope John Paul II to Uganda: 5th to 10th February, 1993 : Gulu, Kasese, Soroti

Source: Visit of Pope John Paul II to Uganda: 5th to 10th February, 1993 : Gulu, Kasese, Soroti

“The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.”

“If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone... we must be compassionate!”

“We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.”

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Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.”

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Author:Paul of the Cross

“I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.”

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Author:Edward Burns

“The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.”

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Book:In my own words

Source: In my own words

“In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering.”

“In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven”

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Author:Chiara Lubich

“Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.”

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Book:Daily Meditations of John Paul II

Source: Daily Meditations of John Paul II

“And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.”

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Book:Pope John Paul II: A Reader

Source: Pope John Paul II: A Reader

“Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.”

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Book:A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World

Source: A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World

“Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.”

“The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.”

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Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX chapels suffered or suffer excommunication. I believe history will record that the intent to impose such an excommunication was invalid and illicit.”

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Author:Malachi Martin

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