Quotations
Suffering
The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
- Thomas Guthrie
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
- Arthur J. Russell
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
- William Nicholson
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