Pain by itself is merely pain, but the experience of pain coupled with an understanding that the pain serves a worthy purpose is suffering. Suffering is meaningful. Suffering can be endured because there is a reason for it, that is worth the effort. What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your […]
Pain Quotes
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
‘Tis cruel to prolong a pain, and to defer a joy.
They say that pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. If I learn to accept that pain is part of life, I will be better able to endure the difficult times and then move on, leaving the pain behind me.
Pain is God’s megaphone to wake up a deaf world.
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.
Wounded oysters build out of gory wounds a pearl And create within the gap of pain a pearl.
In a sense, it (Christianity) creates rather than solves the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteous and loving.
One pain lessened by another’s anguish. (Romeo and Juliet)
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
