#suffering

Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls. ↗

— Allen R. Hunt

#christ #christianity #god #inspirational #jesus

There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#dogs #inspirational #self-protection #suffering #understanding

Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish. ↗

— Ambrose of Milan

#inspiration #salvation #suffering #inspirational

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had. ↗

— Jim McDonald

#inspirational #self-awareness #suffering #inspirational

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#christian religion #ever #me #memory #my own

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#faith #help #injustice #muslim #part

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#go #grieving #had #her #i

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#cost #crime #death #defeat #even

Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life #suffering #life

Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#happiness #suffering #experience