Pastoral Resources

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.