Quotes about Suffering
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
— John Calvin
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
— John Donne
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
— John Donne
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
— John Donne
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
— Ellen Glasgow
For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
— George Eliot
Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed
— Rick Warren
Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.
— Randy Alcorn
Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.
— Louis de Montfort
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.
— Mother Angelica