Quotes about Suffering
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
— Pema Chodron
The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
— DA Carson
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
— John Milton
Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?
— Khalil Gibran
The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
— Pema Chodron
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.
— Rob Bell
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
— Pablo Picasso
The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.
— NT Wright
I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
— Mother Teresa
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
— Albert Camus