Pastoral Resources

I believe in people, especially suffering people.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.