Quotes about Pain

As C. S. Lewis famously said, 'God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: [evil] is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.

it's at least possible that God is wise enough to foresee that we need some pain for reasons which we may not understand but which he foresees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he's not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.

moral character gets formed through hardship, through overcoming obstacles, through enduring despite difficulties. Courage, for example, would be impossible in a world without pain. The apostle Paul testified to this refining quality of suffering when he wrote that 'suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.'13

One writer referred to the problem of pain as "the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

To be cut off by the sword of injured friendship is the most dreadful of all deaths, next to suicide.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.