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"Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator."
"Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long."
"To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ."
"Only the suffering God can help."
"The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead."
"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
"The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options."
"Those who have suffered make the best comforters."
"It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business."
"The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing."
"War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages."
"Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example."
"As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height."
"Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer."
"Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again."
"A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands."
"Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom."
"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world."
"Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite."
"We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . ."
