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Friday, July 5th, 2024
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Suffering'

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller, American Author (1880-1968)
The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.
Alexander Kerensky, Russian Public Servant (1881-1970)
First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
Jack Kevorkian, American Activist (1928-  )
My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
Jack Kevorkian, American Activist (1928-  )
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish Director (1941-1996)
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish Director (1941-1996)
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader (1929-1968)
From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
Jack Kingston, American Politician (1955-  )
It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
Kathe Kollwitz, German Artist (1867-1945)
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
Jerzy Kosinski, Polish Novelist (1933-1991)
I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.
Fritz Kreisler, Austrian Composer (1875-1962)
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
John Agyekum Kufuor, Ghanaian Statesman (1938-  )
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
Aleksander Kwasniewski, Polish Politician (1954-  )
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
Aleksander Kwasniewski, Polish Politician (1954-  )
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Lactantius, Author
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
Jessica Lange, American Actress (1949-  )
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
Tom Lantos, American Diplomat (1928-2008)
In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.
Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian (1884-1968)
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer (1885-1930)
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist (1901-1958)
 
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