In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain o….

IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has bent down in his o….

Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to trium….

I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we a….

Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that hap….

I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men inter….

Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day..

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough..

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards….

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be….

There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory..

Yeah, I must have been really bad in a past life or something." He smiled, his eyes still in pain. Reaching up, he touched a strand of mt hair. " Don….

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely..

Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival..

Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becom….

I've always loved animals. I've never lived without them. As long as I can remember, I was bringing home strays. When I was five, I brought home a st….

Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant..

You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you woul….

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains..

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain..

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet..