Quotes about Suffering

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.

Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!

King's crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.

The holiness of the saints will not excuse them from sufferings.

It was more for Christ to suffer one hour than for us to have suffered forever.

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

My pain is your pain because all pain is the same

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.