Pain

"it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible."

"suffering breaks us until there’s nothing left but gentleness"

"Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it."

"Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!"

"Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created."

"As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon realized that perhaps that main reason was affliction and suffering. ... But at the same time, I learned that just as many people find God through affliction and suffering. They find that adversity moves them toward God rather than away. ... When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives, but that we never were."

"Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others."

"Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all."

"... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny"."

"To suffer together is to suffer with beauty..."

"Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds."

"All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you."

"The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."

"Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times."

"The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do."

"Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness."

"God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good."

"Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness."

"All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing."

"Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain."