Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Benedict XVI

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Nathaniel Branden

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

Mother Teresa

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Victor Hugo

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

Victor Hugo

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Victor Hugo

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Rita Mae Brown

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

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.

Rebecca Wells

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

Robert De Niro

If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.

Richard Rohr

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

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.

Vance Havner

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

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.

W. S. Gilbert

What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?

W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

W. H. Auden

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.