The consideration of the sufferings of Christ for sin powerfully withholds a gracious soul from the commission of it.
—John Flavel
And the more I drink the more I feel it.
That’s why I drink too.
I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink..
I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
—Oscar Wilde
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
—Ernest Hemingway
Suffering is an essential condition for both physical and spiritual improvement.
—Leo Tolstoy
There is no happiness in comfort.
Happiness comes from suffering.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
—Nikolai Gogol
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Sooner shall a tender mother sit inattentive to her crying infant than Jesus be an unconcerned spectator of his suffering children.
—John Newton
True compassion begins only when you imagine yourself in the place of the person who’s suffering and experience true pain.
—Leo Tolstoy
All that he parted withal, all that he did, all that he suffered, all that he doth as mediator; he parted withal, did, suffered, doth, on the account *of his love to and esteem of believers*.
—John Owen
We call suffering evil, but nothing unites people through love more than suffering.
—Leo Tolstoy
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
—Sigmund Freud
CHRIST values his saints, values believers
All that ever he did or doth, all that ever he underwent or suffered as mediator, was for their sakes
—John Owen
I am now reading the book of martyrs. They make me blush to think how little I suffer for CHRIST’s sake.
—George Whitefield
Oh that we may suffer only as christians, and then the spirit of CHRIST and of glory will rest upon us.
—George Whitefield
In the sufferings of Christ, the threatening of the law is already completely finished, that infinite punishment has been eternally gone through.
—Jonathan Edwards
That such a person who was divine and so dear to the Father should suffer at all would have been a wonderful testimony of God’s hatred of sin. But specially it was so when Christ suffered so much.
—Jonathan Edwards
Sin cannot be hated for itself, till we have seen the malignity of it in Christ’s sufferings.
—John Newton
Sin is the greatest evil. Paul’s greatest sorrow was for sin (Rom. 7:24). Paul never cried ‘O wretched man that I am’ because he had suffered so much affiction, but only for his sin!
—Jeremiah Burroughs
God will sometimes be honored rather with the sufferings of men in high places than with their services.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
From the anger aimed at people, as a rule, the evildoer himself suffers.
—Taras Shevchenko