Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think ….

When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles..

Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division….

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also..

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Seco….

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence..

I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to deci….

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity..

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world..

In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering..

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire..

The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and s….

Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are wi….

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways..

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the am….

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your phys….

Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now….

On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage….

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers..

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?.