Quotes about Suffering

We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.

An unsuffering Christ Who did not freely pay the debt of human guilt would be reduced to the level of an ethical guide;

The soul that hated truth (to speak in inadequate human terms) would suffer more in heaven than in hell; analogically speaking, the want of the Spirit of Christ makes us shrink from His companionship.

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 crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble

What have I done to deserve this' if a cry of pride. What did Jesus do? What did Mary do? Let there be no complaint against God for sending a cross; let there only be wisdom enough to see that Nary is there making it lighter, making it sweeter, making it hers.

God does not always spare the good from grief. The Father spared not the Son, and the Son spared not the mother.

But the Woman gave Our Lord His human nature. He asked her to give Him a human life—to give Him hands with which to bless children, feet with which to go in search of stray sheep, eyes with which to weep over dead friends, and a body with which to suffer—that He might give us a rebirth in freedom and love.

The Divine Savior never said to His Apostles: "Be good and you will not suffer" but He did say: "In this world you shall have tribulation."

But He pointed to His torn and battered Self on a hill, and then added that only through the Cross in their lives will there ever be beauty of soul in the newness of life.

To be devoid of love is the essence of hell.

The skin of Christ is the parchment, His blood the ink, the nails the pen. There we see written the story of our life.