Reality has become much scarier than any, even tasteless, imagination. And it should be shown that way. The human soul is measured to its full extent, and such that the world did not even suspect. Books and films about our truth, about our people must crackle with horror, suffering, anger and the unheard-of power of the human spirit.
The people will not want reading material about the war that is descriptive. The people need him from the inside, in his suffering, in his doubts, in his struggle, renewal, and to show him the way and prospects. The people must be glorified, pacified, and brought up in goodness, because so much evil has befallen their lot in one generation that would be enough for ten generations.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
— Seneca
The application of Christ, by the work of regeneration, is that which yield unto men all the sensible sweetness and refreshing comforts that they have in Christ, and in all that he has done, suffered, or purchased for sinners.
—John Flavel
Oh, methinks, if he would punish me for my sins, it would not wound my heart so deep to offend him: but though I sin continually, yet he continually repeats his kindness to me! Oh, methinks I could bear any sufferings; but how can I bear to grieve and dishonour this blessed God!
—David Brainerd
Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).
—Herman Bavinck
Let me pray for all my fellow-creatures, for all that are in pagan ignorance, particularly for the poor negroes, both in Africa the the West Indies. O Lord, do Thou at length visit them with spiritual blessings and a termination of their temporal sufferings. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
Christ’s humiliation and sufferings are a most complete and sufficient meritorious cause of our salvation, to which nothing can be added to make it more apt, and able to procure our salvation, than it already is.
—John Flavel
A person who doesn’t recognize the beneficence of suffering has not yet begun to live a rational, real life.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried”-that is history. “He loved me and gave Himself for me”-that is doctrine.
—J. Gresham Machen
On our Earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.
We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love.
I want suffering in order to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin.
That is his punishment.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
God suffers his dear children to fall into little miscarriages, that the eye may not say to the hand, ‘I have not need of thee;’ or again, the head to the foot, ‘I have no need of thee.’
—George Whitefield
Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).
—Herman Bavinck
Let me pray for all my fellow-creatures, for all that are in pagan ignorance, particularly for the poor negroes, both in Africa the the West Indies. O Lord, do Thou at length visit them with spiritual blessings and a termination of their temporal sufferings. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The application of Christ, by the work of regeneration, is that which yield unto men all the sensible sweetness and refreshing comforts that they have in Christ, and in all that he has done, suffered, or purchased for sinners.
—John Flavel
You thrash about, suffer and search for happiness everywhere, but it’s within you. It’s not in people’s love for you, as it appears at first, but in your love for them.
—Leo Tolstoy
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
—Carl Jung
You shouldn’t surrender to whatever suffering comes your way. You have to say to yourself, ‘You, suffering, want me to surrender, to say to myself that I’m unhappy. No. Pressure me all you want. I will endure it all, and in suffering itself I will find consolation.’
—Leo Tolstoy
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
—Aldous Huxley
Christ’s humiliation and sufferings are a most complete and sufficient meritorious cause of our salvation, to which nothing can be added to make it more apt, and able to procure our salvation, than it already is.
—John Flavel
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
To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering.
—John Milton
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
—Franz Kafka
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
—Oscar Wilde
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
—Franz Kafka
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.
—Vincent Van Gogh
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.
—Charles Dickens