If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
—Marcus Aurelius
Enjoyed some sweetness in things divine, in the midst of my pain and weakness. O that I could praise the Lord!
—David Brainerd
If you will be for Christ, and be His, you must embrace all pains, watchings, and laborings after holiness to the end of your days: holiness will cost a Christian abundance of labor, but this you must do, or you cannot be Christians.
—John Flavel
Is not eternal life worth the suffering of a moment’s pain? If I suffer with Him, I shall reign with Him (2 Tim. 2:12).
—John Flavel
Heart-work is hard work indeed. To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and heedless spirit, will cost no great pains; but to set thyself before the Lord, and tie up thy loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon him; this will cost thee something.
—John Flavel
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. – C.S. Lewis
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
—Charles Dickens
True compassion begins only when you imagine yourself in the place of the person who’s suffering and experience true pain.
—Leo Tolstoy