#suffering

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. ↗

— Thomas Becket

#christ #crown #effort #ever #faith

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher. ↗

— Charles Bent

#christ #come #converse #equally #every

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. ↗

— John Calvin

#discover #joy #must #order #submit

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. ↗

— Robert Capa

#anything #around #aside #easy #except

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here. ↗

— Perry Christie

#almost #coming #day #ended #here

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in. ↗

— Julie Christie

#exists #happiness #i #i think #interesting

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#aids #around #conflicting #dying #getting

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence. ↗

— Steve Berry

#men #suffering #life

There is no love without suffering. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#no love #suffering #without

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. ↗

— Otto Dix

#beginning #brought #cause #did #dreadful