Quotes about Suffering

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice.

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

Casualties of war keep alive post war hate.

God] seeks us in dark places and suffers with us in our tragic prodigality.

Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering.

Why does misery constantly haunt the Negro?

The hard truth is that neither Negro nor white has yet done enough to expect the dawn of a new day. While much has been done, it has been accomplished by too few and on a scale too limited for the breadth of the goal. Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice.

Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian one must take up his cross, with all its difficulties and agonizing and tension-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its mark upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.