Best Long Suffering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.”

“Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.”

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”

“Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training.”

Long Action Joy Suffering Situation Love You Goodness Training Tough Response Endure Gentleness Battlefields Exalted Temperance Meekness Long Suffering Tough Situations

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.”

Love Persons Long Suffering Strong Love Is Love You True Love Patient Seeking Faithful Generous Courageous Sincere Joyful Pious Prudent Long Suffering

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.”

Inspirational Suffering Psychology Depression Prison Where You Are Prisoner Depressing Sufferers Long Suffering Jailer Overcoming Depression Being Depressed People With Depression Feeling Depressed Depression Inspirational Depressed People

Book:Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

Source: Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

“In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the servility of the weak, low rapacity, ephemeral pleasure purchased by great effort, death preceded by long suffering, all belong to the animals as they do to men.”

Men Long Science Death Suffering Strong Pleasure Animal Effort Lows Weak Unhappy Arrogance Wicked Spite Ephemeral Moralist Great Effort Long Suffering Servility

Author:Georges Cuvier

“To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.”

Long Ends Suffering Lord Humility Endure Commandments Meekness Long Suffering Trust In The Lord Enduring To The End

Author:Robert D. Hales

“Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.”

People Long Character Helping Dream Suffering Sun Gratitude Shapes Surprise Climate Patient Appearance Storm Uncertainty Touched Lyrical Insensitive Expect Nothing Long Suffering

Author:H. E. Bates

“God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.”

Way Long Suffering Acting Sweet Independence Chiefs Gentle Persuasion Coercion Confrontation Starks Long Suffering Enticement Solicitation

Book:That We Might Have Joy

Source: That We Might Have Joy

“Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure all things (if they be of the right kind) for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called patience of hope,' because it is hope that makes the soul exercise long-suffering under the cross until the time comes to enjoy the crown!”

Ifs Kind Long Soul Joy Suffering Enjoy Exercise All Things Crosses Skins Endure Blow Thick Crowns Thick Skin Long Suffering

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)

“Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, - these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, - these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.”

Ifs Way Should Heart May Children Long Running Joy Suffering Kindness Trouble Silver Willingness Thread Clue Gentleness Readiness Cords Forbearance Long Suffering

Book:The Duties of Parents

Source: The Duties of Parents

“Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering”

Needs Long Suffering Understanding Love Is Being True Openness Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Long Suffering

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.”

Long Faces Suffering Marriage Misery Painful Convenience Long Suffering Smiling Faces What Is Marriage

Book:From I to Q

Source: From I to Q

“The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”

Long Suffering Father Jesus Christ Tears Pity God Love Tenderness Gentleness Long Suffering

Book:Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series

Source: Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series

“The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our devotion to God. All character traits of godliness grow out of and have their foundation in our devotion to God, but the fruit of patience must grow out of that relationship in a particular way.”

Source: The practice of godliness

“Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.”

Wells Long Joy Suffering Teach Goodness Gentleness Service To Others Long Suffering

Author:Merrill J. Bateman

“This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.”

Giving Looks Long Hard Suffering Opportunity Christ Prayer Depth Finding Yourself End Times Gentleness Spend Time Meekness Long Suffering

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

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

People War Pain Suffering Peace Cry Future Racism Respect Catholic Jew Encounters Genocide Holocaust Immense Nazi Bishops Pleading Auschwitz Extermination Long Suffering

Author:Pope Francis

“For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.”

Persons Long Art Made Important Soul Spirit Suffering Our Lives Perception Important Things Impulse Gathering Eros Long Suffering

Author:Michael Leunig

“Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.”

People Long Self Suffering Adversity Saint Mastery Self Mastery Benefactors Long Suffering

Book:The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.”

“Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.”

May Long Helping Suffering Politics Mistake Democracy Middle One Day Iraq East Tyranny Dramatic Torture Middle East Breakthrough Turning Points Long Suffering

Author:Michael Novak