Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tullian Tchividjian

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

Tullian Tchividjian

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

Tullian Tchividjian

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

Tullian Tchividjian

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

Tullian Tchividjian

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

Rory Bremner

My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Roberto Assagioli

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

Samuel Rutherford

I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

Samuel Johnson

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Walter Kaufmann

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

Walter Kaufmann

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

Walter Kaufmann

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

Walter Kaufmann

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

William Boyd

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

Woodrow Wilson

Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

Winston Graham

When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.

Winston Churchill

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

William Tyndale

All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.

Yusuf Hamied

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

Wendell Berry

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

W. Somerset Maugham

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Vincent Van Gogh

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Vincent Van Gogh

I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more you love, the more you suffer.

William Blake

He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

Samuel Beckett

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Kenzaburo Oe

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

Ramana Maharshi

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Radhanath Swami

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

Radhanath Swami

We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.