Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools..

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome..

none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine..

We do not suffer by accident..

I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life fro….

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love..

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it..

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage..

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business..

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrence….

You know, you struggle and cry and moan and thrash around and beat your head against the wall... and then you realize that you're just yourself, and ….

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the c….

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows..

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves..

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward..

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain..

Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this t….

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly..

It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself..

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide..

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness..