#sufferings

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

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#true-love #imagination

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

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

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

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#our #pleasures #remember #sufferings

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#joys #make #shared #sufferings

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#almighty god #among #efficacious #give #god

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