"For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer."
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"Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth."
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"Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile."
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"I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure."
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"Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it."
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"If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening."
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"Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory."
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"The cross is suffering with Christ."
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"God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross."
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"Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on."
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"Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective."
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"The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead."
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"Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you."
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"To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide."
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"And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it."
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"Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering."
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"We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!"
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"I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her."
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"I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by."
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"Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems."
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