I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.

Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.

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

The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.

love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

i did know this- every second i spent with her was only going to add to the pain i would have suffer later

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.

Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.

Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

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