Quotes about Suffering
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?
— Kay Arthur
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
— Margaret Atwood
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
— John Donne
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?
— Max Lucado
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
— Oscar Wilde
It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.
— Reid Hoffman
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
— Timothy Keller
Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.
— Tullian Tchividjian
There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.
— Virginia Woolf
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
— Alice Hoffman
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
— Teresa of Avila
However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
— Teresa of Avila