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  • The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.

  • Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

    Pain   Teaching   Heart  
    Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525
  • If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

    Pain   Mean   Rocks  
  • The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

    Pain   Self   Suffering  
  • Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

  • You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.

    Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  • Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  • The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

    Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

    Christian   Pain   Speak  
  • I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

    Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525
  • Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

    "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.
  • The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

    Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

    Sex   Pain   Passion  
    Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”
  • So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

    Pain   Long   Generosity  
    Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.159, Matthew Gordon
  • Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing
  • Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of the future. We are afraid of things that have not yet happened, but which if they did might bring us pain, suffering, or some other discomfort - or stand in the way of some future contentment. And we are afraid that circumstances that are already causing us displeasure may continue in the future.

  • Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

    Love   Life   Truth  
  • Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

  • The Saviors atonement in the garden and on the cross is intimate as well as infinite. Infinite in that it spans the eternities. Intimate in that the Savior felt each persons pains, sufferings, and sicknesses. Consequently, he knows how to carry our sorrows and relieve our burdens that we might be healed from within, made whole persons, and receive everlasting joy in his kingdom. May our faith in the Father and the Son help each of us to become whole.

    Pain   Father   Son  
  • The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.

  • Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

    Depression   Fear   Hate  
    Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.
  • I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

    Pain   Loss   Thinking  
    Source: www.thegospelcoalition.org
  • It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

    Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 17
  • Beautiful people do not just happen

  • Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.

    Pain   Men   Suffering  
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