Quotes about Pain

Any person, economic system, or political establishment that fails to concern itself with the pain of others is out of alignment with spiritual truth. And where there is a lack of spiritual alignment, chaos is inevitable

we receive suffering when it comes as an opportunity for God to do something good in us and through us. We rejoice not in the pain but rather in what it can accomplish for the gospel so that something as costly as suffering is not wasted but used for God's glory, our joy, and others' good.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.

But wherefore thou alone wherefore with thee came not all hell broke loose Is pain to them less pain, less to be fled, or thou than they less hardy to endure courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou alleged to thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.