Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

His mother, her eyes raised to heaven, hands arched before her, moving, made real for John that patience, that endurance, that long suffering, which he had read of in the Bible and found so hard to imagine.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.