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[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.
There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.
When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.
The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.
Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.
When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.
We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.
But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?
The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?
We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.
By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.
There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.
Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.
You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.