#sufferings

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ↗

— Marie Antoinette

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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

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

— Robert Capa

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I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

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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

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

— Virgil

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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

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