Pastoral Resources

Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.