#suffering

Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy. ↗

— Stephen King

#hate #love #pain #religion #suffering

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#form #our #sufferings

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother. ↗

— Bernard Lagat

#i #lack #mother #obviously #sleep

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero. ↗

— David D. Burns

#becomes #hero #honor #part #perfectionism

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alone #believe #everyone #i #i do

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#did #dissipation #face #gave #give

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#ask #honorable #how #i #just

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#comfort #elect #fact #great #inwardly

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#apologise #australians #children #communities #country

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#arbitrary #chance #inflicted #nature #never