"Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart."
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"you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares."
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"The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for."
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"Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer."
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"It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life."
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"Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone."
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"We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings."
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"Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor."
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"How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more."
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"Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering."
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"There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute."
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"I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering."
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"A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings."
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"Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted."
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"O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee."
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"It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new."
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"Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt."
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"It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer."
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"Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin."
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"Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love."
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