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“We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.”

Suffering Water Struggle Arms Encouragement Fellows Shore Multitudes Powerless Drowning Stretching Sinking

Author:Felix Adler

“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”

Men Love Persons Done Religion Suffering Passion Religious Compassion Despair Encouragement Harm All Time One Time Defiance Religious Person Religious Love

Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.”

“You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.”

Knows Love Wells Suffering Hurt Magic Health Encouragement Salvation True Love Within You Aversion Deep Within

Author:Hermann Hesse

“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.”

People Believe Pain Suffering Results Violence Deserve Abuse Encouragement Punishment Self Deception Deserving Nonviolent Communication Trickery

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”

“In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.”

Ifs Long Moments Reality Wanted Joy Suffering Heartbreak Encouragement Permanent Inspirational Love Delay Reality Of Love

Author:Marcel Proust

“Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.”

Wells May States Suffering Change Challenges Music Encouragement Jazz Cancer Anguish Baptism Unspeakable Regeneration Initiation

Author:Ira Gershwin

“Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.”

World Feels Mean Pain Suffering Compassion Produce Capable Encouragement Resistance Uncomfortable Psychics Avoidance Numbing

Author:Joanna Macy

“I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!”

Source: What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970

“My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do for yourself, and it can change your life and potentially save your life.”

Important Self Helping Suffering Girl Can Do Eating Encouragement Important Things Harm Ass Disorder Bad Ass Changing Your Life Eating Disorder Words Of Encouragement Self Harm

Author:Demi Lovato

“Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.”

Together Suffering Force Trouble Duty Sorrow Encouragement Brave Endurance Coward Manhood Petty

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.”

“Suffering is seldom an item on our list of requests to the Lord. But when it crosses our path and we are able by his grace to keep on walking, our lives become messages of hope to the world and to the church.”

World Able Suffering Hope Church Lord Path Grace Our Lives Walking Messages Crosses Encouragement Lists Items Request Message Of Hope

Book:Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times

Source: Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times

“When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.”

Mean Doe Facts Might Suffering Loses Religious Loss Path Encouragement Obedience Suffering And Pain Suffering Pain Pain Suffering

Book:Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back

Source: Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back

“In the greatest trial, we behold the greatness of our great God.”

Source: Think Great: Be Great!

“When faced with many rejections, don’t give up. Hold fast to your dreams and keep up with sacred-work, you will succeed in the sacred-time.”

Source: Think Great: Be Great!

“Every misfortune is a fortune.”

Suffering Positive Thinking Encouragement Fortune Troubles Misfortune Adverisity

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“In suffering, we build our strength for ultimate success.”

Success Suffering Strength Positive Thinking Determination Encouragement Never Give Up

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“My friend, if you are weak—worn out from work, worn down by criticism, weary of constant demands or disappointments—if you have come to the end of yourself, if you've been emptied of your delusions of strength, you're just at the right place to be filled with the goodness of God. You're finally fillable. You're fully dependent.”

Christian Suffering Faith Encouragement

Book:Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

Source: Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story

“To ease the guilt of noninvolvement, we charge the church with the job of meeting needs. We forget that we are the church! (p. 18)”

Suffering Encouragement Ministry

Book:Treasures of Encouragement: Women Helping Women in the Church

Source: Treasures of Encouragement: Women Helping Women in the Church

“No matter the situation, do not give up hope of being saved.”

Suffering Hope Situation Encouragement

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Repentance from sin is necessary as a relieved from suffering.”

Suffering Sin Encouragement Repentance

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Our ability to face trials, tribulations, suffering, sickness or disease all rest in the power of God working through us, giving us all we need to get through it. - Hidden Treasures”

Suffering Healing Health Disease Encouragement Sickness Trials And Tribulations

Book:Hidden Treasures: Finding Hope at the End of Life's Journey

Source: Hidden Treasures: Finding Hope at the End of Life's Journey