We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

God suffers with you!

And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.

If we start (as we must) at the bottom of the ladder, having compassion on all men, nothing that happens to others is foreign to us. Their grief is our grief, their poverty our poverty.

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.

Leaders gain credibility when they suffer with those they lead.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

If I can recognize that all suffering and crucifixion (divine, planetary, human, animal) is "one body" and will one day be transmuted into the "one body" of cosmic resurrection (Philippians 3:21), I can at least live without going crazy or being permanently depressed.

A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.