#erin

...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #suffering #love

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering. ↗

— Denis de Rougemont

#passion #poets #suffering #love

...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #scars #soul #suffering #love

The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#suffering #love

Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord. ↗

— A.W. Pink

#love

But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go any further than that. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#pain #suffering #love

Victory belongs to the most persevering. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#most #persevering #victory

The sting of her abandonment had not lessened through the years, and I suspected it would never go away. Occasionally, I could see agony in her eyes, the shadows that flickered in the background. If I could, I'd take her pain and make it my own. I'd swallow it like a bitter pill and live with the consequences. ↗

— T.J. Forrester

#relationship #suffering #love

Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#smile #suffering #love

Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies. ↗

— Soheir Khashoggi

#remembering-loved-ones #love