God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned.
John D. RichardsonTags: christianity god suffering hurt jesus christ broken abandoned wounded brokenhearted
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
Fyodor DostoevskyMan is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards
Andrei TarkovskyTags: inspirational existence suffering existentialism
Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. ‘We are too ego-centered,’ Suzuki tells Cage.’ The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.
Kay LarsonTags: life zen mind self suffering ego individual
Emma is not a person; Emma is a place that you get stuck in; Emma is a pain that you cannot erase.
Justin VernonTags: pain sadness suffering depression emma forever bon justin for ago iver vernon
Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: wisdom life truth pain suffering
Everywhere I looked, hope existed - but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life.
Joan D. ChittisterThe spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
Joan D. ChittisterTags: god hope suffering struggle
Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....
Émile GaboriauTags: suffering
Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.
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