Quotes about Pain

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

The healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts.

My experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Dodge, be honest. It's not close to over. You've been nursing this wound for nearly ten years, working it off over there in Afghanistan, trying to forget the girl you've loved since you were ten. There's no way this is over. There is so much bitterness sitting in your heart you can't even see it. But maybe that's why God brought you back - for her. And to set you free from all that darkness.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not

But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.

The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does show that God did not sit idly by and watch us suffer in isolation. He became one of us. Thus, in Jesus, God gives us an up-close and personal look at his response to human suffering. All our questions about God and suffering should, in fact, be filtered through what we know about Jesus.

Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.

We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can't find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you'll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you'll see at least one next right step you can take.

But lying in the critical care unit—an abdomen distending more and more with each passing hour, tubes running in and out of a body refusing to function, and a pain pump set to deliver the highest doses but still not relieving the pain—will make death look quite appealing.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.