Suffering Quotes

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war"

"The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction."

"The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain"

"Sorrow is a sickness worse than any other."

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain"

"God never allows pain without a purpose"

"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever"