Pastoral Resources

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.