Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheridan Smith

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

Sebastian Faulks

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

Socrates

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

Socrates

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

Mel White

There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius)

Mike Tyson

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

John Piper

The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.

John Stott

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

Nora Roberts

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

Myrtle Reed

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

N. T. Wright

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

Mignon McLaughlin

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

John Wooden

Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.

Matthew Arnold

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

Plato

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Plato

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

Plato

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Plato

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Paulo Coelho

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

Max Lucado

God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.

Max Lucado

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

Max Lucado

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

Matthieu Ricard

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

Matthieu Ricard

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Matthieu Ricard

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Meir Kahane

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Mason Cooley

The young are amazed when they suffer.

Mason Cooley

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

Markus Zusak

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

Margaret Mead

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

Michael Lewis

There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.