#suffering

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#absolute truth #accepted #always #disappointment #doubt

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

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#believe #god #i #i do #imposed

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly — that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak — is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#love

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#live #meaning #some #suffer #suffering

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#friend #joy #makes #our #over

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#depressed #eternal #eternal life #fact #forever

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. ↗

— Robert Orben

#back #before #ever #more #payments

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#death #only #same #suffering

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales. ↗

— David Rose

#cell #cell phone #decade #due #initially