#suffer

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. ↗

— Josh Billings

#man #misery #must #numb #suffer

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it. ↗

— Josh Billings

#between #difference #enjoy #misery #only

Suffering does not discriminate. ↗

— Shania Twain

#does #suffering

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it. ↗

— Iris Dement

#began #how #make #really #since

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#also #endlessly #forgets #his #man

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that. ↗

— Greg Egan

#being #fastest #new #ones #only

To have a body is to suffer. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#suffer

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#again #done #get #god #going

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#become #bind #body #could #experience

In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended. God tells then they have been guilty of misrepresenting God. Only Job – only angry, defiant, doubting Job has been faithful. The story of Job reminds us that God is not offended when we question. Indeed, if anything God is offended when we speak too glibly. Make room in your heart for the angry, defiant and doubting questions. You may find God there as well. ↗

— Peggy Haymes

#faith #job #suffering #tragedy #faith