“O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!” HeartSoulSufferingPoorDoubtSawsPiecesCryCreaturesBraveNobleNo DoubtVesselTempestShipwreckGonzalo From Tempest Author:William Shakespeare
“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.” ThinkingFeelsMindMaySufferingPiecesShapesRegardDareActiveBlockFlamesIronFedsStatuesMarbleRubbishHammeredAnvils Book:Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses Source: Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses
“You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.” MaySufferingFatherHeavenChristPerfectCompanyLordPiecesCuttingReadyConflictGloryCrossesMarkIllCorruptionWoundsStealingPortraitsAffliction Author:Samuel Rutherford
“A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is suffering. I would gladly give myself to be cut up into pieces if that would ease his suffering." Such is the love of God for people. He pitied people so much that he wanted to suffer for them, like their own mother, and even more. But no one can understand this great love without the grace of the Holy Spirit.” PeopleIfsInspirationalGivingLittlesSaidWantedChristianSpiritMotherCertainSufferingFatherReligiousBoysGracePiecesCuttingHolySickGod LoveEaseHoly SpiritOrthodoxMonkGreat LoveLittle Boys Author:Silouan the Athonite
“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.” MenHumansDoeDifferentHandsSeemsGovernmentMightSufferingPrinciplesPiecesWiseImaginePlansHe ManMembersIdealsInvestingChessEaseBoardsImagine ThatSmallestImpressConceitLegislatureHuman SocietyDeviationVery WiseWealth Of NationsGreat Society Author:Adam Smith
“Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.” NeedsHumansChildrenRealDreamFilmSufferingPiecesReal LifeHorribleLegendsPornographyTabooHorrible ThingsHuman SufferingSnuff Author:John Carpenter
“The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.” WritingEnoughSufferingFunProcessChallengesPiecesFieldsSeriousMaterialsShapesLetting GoResearchLaborBackgroundsNarrativeBelovedLengthFlawsWriting ProcessParagraph Author:Bob Shacochis
“Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood. The Christian life is a life of paradoxes. We must give to receive, realize we are blind to see, become simple to be wise, suffer for gain, and die to live. If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world” IfsWorldGivingShouldMeanTwoSoulMightChristianLife IsSufferingDiesChristRealizingSimplePiecesWiseHonorGainsBlindWoodsRichesChristian LifeSavingBridgesParadoxBeing Wise Author:Asahel Nettleton
“Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.” PeopleIfsHumansSometimesHomeSufferingFeltPiecesFleshBack Home Author:Don McCullin
“Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.” DoeWholeBigsChristianSufferingPiecesFitChristian FaithBig PictureWhole Picture Author:Alister E. McGrath