#sufferings

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#faith #god #prayer #sufferings #faith

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. ↗

— Virgil

#day #joy #may #perhaps #remember

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#endured #forever #four #free #had

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#god #hath #himself #his #saying

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#joys #make #shared #sufferings

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #clear #factory #farming #holocaust

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

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#heaped #men #never-ending #suffering #sufferings

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#academy #alleviate #classes #economically #exploited

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#blame-game #god #good #good-and-evil #goodness